Anyone else think this might be counterfeit?

Now I see what you're talking about.

 

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Even if it were real, I wouldn't drop $60 on it. I love the description: listed as CH BU and then below it's listed as circulated. Is there something I'm missing?

 

You are missing the fact that the seller is a marble collector.

 

RLM

I can't disagree with the letters you see on the coin. It is odd that someone made a copy and did not do it as a full bands on the reverse. Maybe it's easier to pass off a cheaper fake, I suppose (although the BIN price is ridiculous).

 

I'd say the digits of the date are not right either. Is it just me or is that 9 unreasonably large compared to the rest of the digits? And I don't believe the 5 is shaped right. The spacing between the 4 and the 5 seems too large as well.

 

Regardless of authenticity, I do have a question; am I missing something. Is this "super-strike" a collectable variety? I mean it seems to me that even if real it's worth, what, all of 2 or 3 bucks?

 

Honestly, I'm not bothered by the date. It's out of focus and hard to read plus it has a lot of reflection from the light source coming from the left side... but the 9 seems about right and the space between the 4 and 5 looks fine.

Here's another 45 that's more straight on from another CT thread for some immediate comparison.

I still do not doubt the authenticity of the coin itself and I don't interpret the marks to read 'copy', that seems to be looking too hard for what's not really there. Has anyone contacted the Seller with request for more pics, straight on shots or if this is has a 'copy' stamp on it?

That the pics were doctored or taken in such a way as to be 'deceptive' could be the case here. However, I think that instead it's the photos that are just bad. They look to be shot with a camera held up through a loupe or some sort of magnifying lens since the edges of the frame are so out of focus. Plus certain areas of the images are soft focused and look blurred. This I feel is throwing off everyone's read of this piece through the view of being a fake since the hallmarks of a scammers listing are present: the price is jacked way up, the seller thinks the pics are representative and that the coin would grade high with a TPG, but spells PCGS wrong and the holder shot does nothing to authenticate the piece.

 

I sent the Seller a couple questions this morning and got a short reply this afternoon:

My question:

Seller:

 

i think the seller is missing a few marbles :rolling:

 

Vewy busy. Make fwy wye, and fake silvaw dowwahs.

 

I dont see any reason in faking a 1945 mercury dime without FSB.......they sell for silver spot in that condition allday, although i see what you see i imagine its got to be some kind of error. thats magnified at ten times (atleast) so that would be a very small copy stamp

 

That was a question I had awhile back. Is "superstrike" some unusual variety or is this a plain old 2 buck chuck?

 

a real super strike of this coin would in fact be worth alot of money..... finding the 45 with FSB is like finding a 3 legged buffalo. If it were i could see it selling for at least 500 maybe more

 

You mean maybe like this one?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Replica-1941-S-...mQQptZCoins_US_Individual?hash=item3cabc935fc

 

That would make sense, but this coin isn't FSB and the strike looks pretty plain-jane to me.

 

Yea the coin is ugly in my eyes and this coin has by far the highest hike in price for FSB in the whole mercury set

 

Large S FSB in that condition is atleast $300

 

If it's not a fake and had full split bands it's price would be in the four figure range or better. -O) I have seen one that was an MS62 FSB for $3000.00 the first picture looks as if a "S" is just in front of the "Y"in Liberty. The later pictures do not show it.

 

It took long enough, but they finally pulled it