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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4526547, member: 101855"]If this were real it would the numismatic find of the century because it’s not a Proof. Mint records show that 12,000 business strike were made, but none of them have ever surfaced. They were either a blip in the mint mintage reporting process (actually had a different date), or they were melted sometime during the period when these pieces were stored in government vaults. They would have been just 12 bags of dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>This thing is a product of China. The digits in the date are wrong. I am surprised that the eBay bidders didn’t take the bids higher. Usually they go nuts on counterfeits like this, which draws attention to them. That results in the removal of the listing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to say, we know it’s real because “It was in granddaddy’s collection.” It’s funny how so many granddaddies collected fake coins from China. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen this line used in the description of a bogus coin in an eBay listing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4526547, member: 101855"]If this were real it would the numismatic find of the century because it’s not a Proof. Mint records show that 12,000 business strike were made, but none of them have ever surfaced. They were either a blip in the mint mintage reporting process (actually had a different date), or they were melted sometime during the period when these pieces were stored in government vaults. They would have been just 12 bags of dollars. This thing is a product of China. The digits in the date are wrong. I am surprised that the eBay bidders didn’t take the bids higher. Usually they go nuts on counterfeits like this, which draws attention to them. That results in the removal of the listing. Edited to say, we know it’s real because “It was in granddaddy’s collection.” It’s funny how so many granddaddies collected fake coins from China. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen this line used in the description of a bogus coin in an eBay listing.[/QUOTE]
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