I think the problem is that you are too young for this to make any sense to you. There indeed existed a time before "the internets" :)
One more of their accounts: http://www.ebay.com/sch/23durson6/m.html?item=171507115406&hash=item27ee9ee58e&pt=US_World_Coins&rt=nc
I haven't been selling much lately, but I have been buying.. a lot. I only get low-ball deals with BIN now-a-days when I used to get them with...
I love out of focus photos, have gotten some awesome deals that way :) But I also believe that there is such a thing as "too good of a photo"....
Only the OP can see it clearly. We have provided info that the OP can use to see if their coin is fake or not. No one is saying definitively that...
Dentils look like circular beads. On genuine coins it will be an alternating pattern of thick and thin elongated dentils.
Need better pictures. Dentils appear off, but again could just be the photos.
Your cat's face perfectly represents what the seller of these coins looks like seeing those low-ball bids.
My first coin was a regular clad Roos dime, which I received as a gift in 1986 at the age of 4... when I was living in (at that time Soviet)...
And this one too...
The one that is $4 in VF is a regular issue, not proof. This is a typographical error courtesy of our favorite coin book.
My two shame-worthy pieces: Virginia halfpenny and "Indian Peace" token [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
My guess would be WWI
That is the "Lord's Prayer", can be found on many medallions.
High end counterfeits, have been posting about them for a couple years now. And they sell the same coins over and over, i.e.:...
The thing with ebay is patience pay off. Some coins, like this series, you can get a lot more money with BIN listings if you don't mind the wait....
To support that it is a contemporary counterfeit, the surface marks mostly look like a variety of test punches, which indicates it was a rather...
Non-ferrous metals do not react to a magnet, which is most of them
Well it certainly appears to be a contemporary counterfeit. My experience is mostly with CCs of foreign coins, but many of those are also copper...
What is your opinion on people who collect contemporary counterfeits then? :) Not that the piece posted here is that, just wondering.
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