1851-O Seated Liberty Dollar

It's only the property of the government if they find out.....

 

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I do not recall ever reading anything that would suggest it impossible for another/others to have been made or, perhaps, exist, but the OP's example is certainly not one of them. The similarities between the known example in Kirk's post and the OP's do not extend beyond the superficial.

 

The only known piece, examined, by Larry & Ira Goldberg is shown below. No others have surfaced since.

 

The one from my post has been in an ANACS PR-62 holder your years now and hasn't seen the marketplace in a very long time. I'm not sure which collection in resides, but I think that if that coin started trading hands regularly, it would quickly become one of the most valuable coins in the world.

 

Exactly... so when someone implies that other genuine examples may exist in a thread about a clear knock-off, it is not unreasonable to point out that the similarities only go so far.

 

I bought this coin at auction, along with a 1913 s quarter, a 1916 quarter, and a 1932 D quarter. Expecting they may be fakes, but the three quarters all came back as real. So I am wondering about the dollar?

 

Nothing jumps out as it being cast or anything, but the date looks completely wrong. Who graded the other pieces, and which auction house would have so many key dates uncertified? Seems very suspicious.

 

The auction house is an estate clean-out in upstate ny that does not know coins or there value. The other coins were graded by a local coin dealer in ny. I did not even take the trade dollar with me because from what Ive read it is fake. But now I read the man says he found it metal detecting so just wondering.

 

Compare it to the genuine example on the first page.... they're certainly not the same.

"Trade dollar"?

The other coins were "graded by a dealer" or submitted through him? I obviously don't know who you took them to, but do be careful not confusing "dealer" with "expert". For every truly knowledgeable one out there, there's another who shouldn't be giving advice. Perhaps you can post photos?

 

Thank you I will.

 

Obvious counterfeit. Looks like a modern Chinese copy.

 

To anyone that says this cannot be; same was said about copper 1943 US cents for many years.

 

"To anyone that says"..... what? That the TomC's example is indeed fake? If so, and with all due respect, the comparison both a stretch and on the surface, rather poor. Unfortunately, his does not even remotely match the single known genuine coin, so all other legitimate "concerns" aside, what do you think the chances are another would (errant or not) have been made that just happens to much more closely resemble a modern low-quality imitation than genuine coins of that era?

What you're seeing here isn't the blind uneducated dismissal of this gentleman's "coin".

 

After closer examination of the REAL, excuse me, the only known example and NOT the OP's, I believe it is a Philadelphia mint production but struck over a previously struck New Orleans Mint silver dollar.

 

This is definitely fake.

 

The February edition of The Numismatist had a wonderful article on the 1851- O dollar.

 

I also have a 1851 O seated liberty. Im unsure of its origins or anything about it but ut is an interesting coin.

 

Welcome, John. Feel free to post photos if you'd like more information.