In my post on page 2 (Saturday 1:17a.m.) I made specific design and date/mm comments.
In fact maybe the best thing to do is to snipe it with a credit card, submit it to PCGS and then have documentation to submit to eBay.
I have been exchanging messages on their eBay account, too. Seems like they really do not believe it. But I reminded of eBay's policy and asked...
Yes they responded to my eBay message pointing this out. They also insist it is genuine.
If you would please explain why this superior detail is evidence. The aliexpress junk certainly looks clunky and dull. But a cleaned genuine EF40...
Nor am I interested in owning anything that is not quality and original. But they say every serious collector should own counterfeits as a means...
Right. Your link about the sweat shops says they process them further after striking. To get the ~EF40 state of the eBay example they would have...
Yes I see the 1888 - has the cockeyed third 8. It is amazing that in the 1888S under discussion the miscreants would have known to polish out...
Ok thank you for the horrifying link. Gotta hate all of it. I knew they were getting a lot better. The recent CT thread on the 1920-S Walker...
Yes and I am extremely concerned about it. Want to be on detection like white on rice. Which is why I stayed up late tapping on this phone...
Ok let's not debate. Any idea how they might have done it?
Noooooooo!!! R.I.P. VKB emoji!!
Meant 23,000+ transactions, not all sales.
As they say down here in NC, "I might be suckin' pond water on this one", but I am going to go out on a limb and say this coin is genuine. Most...
A quick search did not show any die varieties for this year. (& to avoid confusion note that the previous illustrated post was showing the 2011...
Two smoking guns that this second example on the thread is also a fake: In God We Trust is different from the real coin. (I) The T's were...
This is very well thought out and expressed with an admirable logic. Who could say that your conclusion does not follow from this sequence of...
That is a very good reference from actual practice. o_O :cool:. It sounds like the survival estimates in the low hundreds are accurate for...
I noticed this same thing on some of the unslabbed offerings that claimed to be business strikes, but figured the seller was being misleading....
Key info surfaced about the edge distinction, from Conder101 in the other 3CN thread: "the proofs were struck slower and at higher pressure....
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