1886 Liberty "Nickle" on ebay...

Watched this get sold this afternoon... Sold a bit on the cheap!

Check out what the seller wrote in the description... a little squirrely?

Thoughts?

http://cgi.ebay.com/1886-Liberty-Nickle-/230468781917?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item35a902875d&autorefresh=true

 

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If it's too good to be true... it probably aint true. That one just looks fake to me.

 

It's a counterfeit. Surfaces are funky... the rims are not correct... the details are flat... I'd bet my last penny that it's a Chinese counterfeit.

 

Basically what the seller is implying, if you buy this from me, and you get it graded and it turns out to be "not genuine" the seller has more or less already told you so, which releases him from further liability.

In any case, I think the seller is just trying to be honest.

 

Description is totally suspicious. Basically, I am not claiming this coin is authentic, and if you come back later and it's fake tough luck...

 

I think the honest thing to do would be to authenticate it before selling it...

I think this is shady at best... not to mention that the coin is clearly a counterfeit...

 

I'm so sick of counterfeits, replicas, copies, fakes, and reproductions being sold side by side with real coins/paper money! Out of 3,282 items under U.S.>gold on ebay almost a third of them are phony. Give them their own category already!




I feel better now.

 

I'm sick of them too!

Indeed, the surfaces looked funky to me. The specimen just looked 'wrong'.

Yes, if he knew or suspected, he shouldn't have tossed it out there.. The seller's description rang suspicious.

I suspect that it's probable that the person who purchased it is in for a unpleasant awakening.

It's too bad buyers don't have a way to reach and PM each other anymore...

 

Just like the "so-called" other collector from whom he originally purchased the coin from should have done.

Trickle down....my problem is solved when I sell you this coin, it now becomes your problem.

This happens all the time, very few bogus coins leave the market, they just keep circling waiting for a place to land.

Figuring out the physce of a e-Bay seller would make Freud do a tail spin.

 

fake, and somebody "won" this prize for almost $140!

Fools and their money, sigh....

 

It sat at the closing amount for the last 2 minutes (if not earlier, didn't see)

I watched it count down, shaking my head.

 

if that one makes you think, how about his 1912 S?

http://cgi.ebay.com/1912-S-Liberty-...em&pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item35a931f7e6

I'm pretty sure that the MM is, well......... not original?

 

Definitely fake... I thought it was against eBay policy to put disclaimers in your auction description regarding the authenticity of a coin.

 

Actually, there is a category for reproductions, and that's where all coins being sold as replicas should be... and that's O.K.; it's the fakes being sold as genuine or questionable (with disclaimers) in the regular categories that are the problem. Here's a link to the reproductions:
http://coins.shop.ebay.com/Replicas-Reproductions-/162122/i.html?_armrs=1&_mdo=Coins-Paper-Money&_mspp=&_pcats=253%2C11116

 

Yeah that 12S is also a Chinese counterfeit. I bet they came from the same place.

 

Looks fake to me.

I dig his rationale as to why it might be real: It fit in the hole in his book.

LOL!

 

Now I know that is a fake. The 'S' is too big.

Another listing where they spelled it 'Nickle' too. I wonder how Law Enforcement might perceive that...?

 

That whole coin in counterfeit, that 2 is all wrong looking.

 

I bet he bought the coins from the same place at the same time. Hold them for a while then sale them as genuine. There was an 1805 bust half on their as real with the item location of China last night. It was up over $300 before I went to bed.

 

Buy fakee Chinese copy coins and have happy ending?