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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Half Dime, post: 26216507, member: 153164&quot;]Counterfeit. And that&#039;s a scary one too. Here is a list of, probably not all, the problems with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. The dime has the common antiqued look of a counterfeit coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. The &quot;PCGS AU50&quot; is slightly lower than it should be, when compared against the &quot;1916-D&quot; and &quot;10C&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Greysheet/CPG (CDNs) are $8,600 and $11,000. Starting price was $4,000; no dealer is gonna be happy with potentially a $4,600 loss.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. The letters are slightly, but slightly in such high-dollar coins means <b>very</b>, off.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. The olive branch is just....... off.</p><p><br /></p><p>6. The &quot;antiqued&quot; look, if the coin was real, would not straight-grade - a genuine coin that looks like this is the result of an old cleaning.</p><p><br /></p><p>7. It may be just me, but that dime, even for a counterfeit, is better than AU-50 details.</p><p><br /></p><p>8. It is a 7-day auction - while not at all a deciding factor, key-date coins like this are usually listed for significantly longer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of these factors play a better role than others; however, someone is gonna get screwed for over $7,000, while eBay will do nothing about it but pat themselves on the back since they just made a good $900 or more.</p><p><br /></p><p>That coin, to the untrained eye, is a scary good counterfeit. The seller should go to jail should they refuse to take the coin back and sell it for the real value of only a few dollars. Sellers like this are responsible for turning lots of people away from coin collecting, and maybe even coin dealing, all to make a quick buck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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