That's what takes the ridiculousness up a notch. Yes there is a concern with fake slabs, but the convincing looking ones only appeared within the...
You may not agree, but I am of the opinion that trying to police poor quality fakes like these is a worthless endeavor. There are so many more...
Fair price for the grade and eye appeal, as long as it looks as good in hand. A bit concerned about that white crud around 12 to 3 o'clock.
CCF has a robust means of doing this, as long as you provide solid reasoning. Unfortunately diagnostics are only available a little too late.
Don't ever do this sort of thing, especially via ebay message. That second part can get you ip banned.
Yea, it's a little bit different with legal tender lol
Patents and copyrights apply to things that can objectively be seen as identical, close enough or not. That doesn't apply to the area of antiques...
To mirror what @baseball21 said a couple posts back, this would be rife for abuse at the highest levels. The power is in the hands of the people...
Were your coins removed specifically as counterfeit? I don't doubt it's happened, but as was described by one former member, multiple members had...
When that happens the population of worn, dug large cents will suddenly grow higher than how many were originally minted :eek:
I stopped reporting fakes to eBay immediately after they disbanded the team of expert consultants who were responsible for the fakes actually...
Guy is probably trying to recoup what he paid for it. Might have been fooled when buying, now thinks someone will pay $350 for a stated fake. I...
Moral of the story is know when to cut yourself off from the booze. Nice coin, but you got lucky that this was the black eye and not an actual one lol
Nothing obviously suspicious about the coin to me. There are some legit sellers in China. Most of them have NGC/PCGS slabbed coins among their...
The jeton is charming, but will you look at it in a few months and think "meh"? I had to go with save up for a bigger purchase later. Something...
This is the sort of thing that goes either way. Of course it's important to be prepared to understand and deal with such situations, but it's so...
Could be a lot of different coins. Also looks shaved down. What's the diameter and weight?
I live in NY too. Getting the id info is standard. I wouldn't suspect an issue if the person selling is willing to provide a legit id. Worst case...
Welp, couldn't find anything numismatic I really wanted in time, but got wifey a new laptop with a $50 discount :)
You see that a lot, especially with older accounts that were created before profile pictures were even a thing on ebay.
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