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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FastMoneyPlaya, post: 766812, member: 22165&quot;]Here&#039;s another coin sold by the same seller on EBAY which looks to be another altered Key Date Barber.&nbsp; Look at the 9 and the 2 in the date:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.auctiva.com/hostedimages/showimage.aspx?gid=264833&amp;ppid=1122&amp;image=305847213&amp;images=305847213,305847256&amp;formats=0,0&amp;format=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.auctiva.com/hostedimages/showimage.aspx?gid=264833&amp;ppid=1122&amp;image=305847213&amp;images=305847213,305847256&amp;formats=0,0&amp;format=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.auctiva.com/hostedimages/showimage.aspx?gid=264833&amp;ppid=1122&amp;image=305847213&amp;images=305847213,305847256&amp;formats=0,0&amp;format=0</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Compare it to the date on this PCGS coin from a completed Heritage auction:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://coins.ha.com/common/view_image_only.php?img=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.ha.com%2Flf%3Fsource%3Durl%5Bfile%3Aimages%2Finetpub%2Fnewnames%2F300%2F5%2F1%2F0%2F6%2F5106233.jpg%5D%2Ccontinueonerror%5Btrue%5D%26source%3Durl%5Bfile%3Aimages%2Finetpub%2Fwebuse%2Fno_image_available.gif%5D%2Cif%5B('global.source.error')%5D%26sink%3Dpreservemd%5Btrue%5D" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.ha.com/common/view_image_only.php?img=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.ha.com%2Flf%3Fsource%3Durl%5Bfile%3Aimages%2Finetpub%2Fnewnames%2F300%2F5%2F1%2F0%2F6%2F5106233.jpg%5D%2Ccontinueonerror%5Btrue%5D%26source%3Durl%5Bfile%3Aimages%2Finetpub%2Fwebuse%2Fno_image_available.gif%5D%2Cif%5B('global.source.error')%5D%26sink%3Dpreservemd%5Btrue%5D" rel="nofollow">http://coins.ha.com/common/view_image_only.php?img=http://images.ha.com/lf?source=url[file:images/inetpub/newnames/300/5/1/0/6/5106233.jpg],continueonerror[true]&amp;source=url[file:images/inetpub/webuse/no_image_available.gif],if[('global.source.error')]&amp;sink=preservemd[true]</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Seems like there&#039;s a pattern.&nbsp; I looked through a bunch of this seller&#039;s completed listings and it looks like he sells about 300 coins a month on EBAY.&nbsp; Mostly coins in the $20-100 range, but a few Key dates in the $500-800 range.&nbsp; The above 1892-O Barber Half sold for $400:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=350257388083" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=350257388083" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=350257388083</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So maybe the scam is to sell a bunch of cheaper coins that are legit in order to gain a 99.6% approval rating, and then throw in a few bigger ticket altered coins in order to make a bigger score?&nbsp; I guess it&#039;s possible that the seller isn&#039;t aware that some of the coins that he&#039;s selling may be fake, so there is a chance that he&#039;s an honest seller who himself has been taken advantage of.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>FWIW, I sent a couple of e-mails to the seller of my fake 1914 last night, and still haven&#039;t gotten any type of response (18 hours later).&nbsp; So I suspect the seller is dodging me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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