That one is tripping my counterfeit senses as well. Besides the bad strike and the denticles, the reeding looks wrong, too. As far as I can see,...
That's the nail on the coffin. A cast replica. I take it was mostly tin or zinc?
But the fact that it's their business is part of the problem for our hobby. In any case, if someone wants employ a TPG to get verification, I'm...
@BooksB4Coins - I, at present, do not have access to my collection, but here's an oldie but goodie of an example. The 1896,1900,1901,1902 Micro O...
@Morgandude11 - That would be putting words in my mouth. :-)
Aye this very well could be a South/Central American counterfeit, and one that has circulated a great deal (I have a couple of brass Sacagaweas in...
@ksparrow - Every bit of help is sincerely appreciated and information about contributing can be found here:...
Very few people are Tom DeLorey, outside of Tom DeLorey. :-) I'm not saying I'm infallible (as that would be foolish, no one is infallible -- I...
I like the left eagle, but looking at the right Liberty -- at that resolution -- seems a bit too much like Angelia Jolie... and I'm not sure the...
I can't tell based on those photos, but the surface isn't looking particularly silver to me, either.
Doug asked me to write them a letter in my capacity as curator of The Black Cabinet where I outlined the problems with the coin and signed it in...
Let me rephrase: In a few years -- unless something fundamentally changes -- slabs will not be worth the plastic they're made of anymore as...
Slabbed merchandise is no guarantee either, remember. See: http://fakes.numismetrica.com/tpg-check/ Sadly, the game of cat and mouse only gets...
Once they say that, since they're not a common carrier, they've opened themselves up to both a civil suit under Section 3 (to recover damages and...
There we go, I finally compiled an amended copy of the Hobby Protection Act to make it easier to read:...
You need to tell eBay that: 1) You have proof they know it's fake due to the previous buyer, what transpired there, and how they re-listed it....
Indeed, that's usually the case, but the precise amount of shrink depends a lot upon the alloy used and a few other factors.
Ugh, all of their photos are just low-enough resolution to hide problems and make checking their authenticity difficult, too. :-P
Sadly this is becoming more and more common. :-( It's easy money... and the reason why the Collectable Coin Protection Act was passed. Time to...
Such an angry Liberty. :-)
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