Fake. The coin has weak details and the color looks like how the Chinese counterfeits look.
Grey Sheet is $7.25 Bid and $8.00 Ask. You would be lucky to get $7.00.
Here are a few excerpts from another article about World Reserve Monetary Exchange and their "Ballistic Rolls" of Presidential Dollars: You...
www.coinshows.com is a good place to look for coin shows. This Denver show is held twice a year. You can come out here in November (or whenever...
Don't buy any Trade Dollars or Seated Lib Dollars (unless they have been authenticated by one of the top 4 TPGs). They are likely to be Chinese...
I attended the Denver Coin, Stamp & Sportscard Expo today (Friday). This was my first time to attend this particular show. It is a 3-day show but...
In a word - no. Essentially the only difference between a PF-69 and a PF-70 (or a MS-69 and a MS-70) is the price.
My two cents - I think the use of the word "stolen" in this case is inappropriate. As you stated in your original post the seller made a simple...
You need to understand how this happened before you can appreciate why it happened. This coin is a Chinese counterfeit. The counterfeiters have...
Lou, I think you have your facts mixed up. Or maybe it's your terminology that is mixed up. The purpose of mintmarks is to identify where the...
By golly, you have a point there. The auction is still active. Too bad eBay didn't pull the auction when I notified them.
I am always on the lookout for counterfeit and altered coins. Whenever I see an 1856 FEC I immediately look at the 5 in the date. On a genuine...
UPDATE It looks like I got the seller to pull his fake "coin".
1847-S Seated Dollar. Obvious fake. The first clue is . . . THERE WAS NOT A MINT IN SAN FRANCISCO UNTIL 1854. The second clue is . . . THE...
Be VERY careful. This coin may be genuine; it may be fake. It looks good at first glance but, like OT said, there are excellent fakes out there,...
Good point. I was thinking about the current slabs, not the older ones.
NGC's slabs are sonically sealed. This means the two halves are fused together. If the slab is tampered with in an effort to separate the two...
Does not look like a genuine coin to me. Could be a game piece or a fantasy piece.
If it is a scratch (which is exactly what it appears to be) the mark will into the coin. If it is a die crack the mark will be raised.
Same thing happened to me on a Shield Nickel. I was high bidder on a well-worn example that I recognized as an uncommon (not rare) variety that...
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