Can't tell. Need in-focus pictures. I don't like the color on the obverse shot, but it's impossible to judge color from posted photos.
Personally I do not see anything that would cause me suspicion. Coloring and luster patterns sure look normal for that grade.
Because the seller had two coins listed, one being a fake seated dime that got shut down earlier. His other coin was this and the photo was blurry, but it still looked like a decent xf barber from what icould make of the photo. Just wanted a 2 nd oppinion.
This was the dime they were talking about on another forum as being fake. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1866-Seated-Liberty-Dime-LOOK-ONCE-IN-A-LIFE-TIME-FIND-/251955244605?
Yeah, not a fan of that one. I understand your concern on the half being sold by the same person, but I simply cannot see anything off on the half from my view. That dime, though, I have a few things I could point to.
Please post pictures when you get it. I was nervous about the color, but I don't see the other tells that I found on the fake Barbers I've encountered. Good score, if it turns up problem-free.
QUOTE="medoraman, post: 2150642, member: 26302"]Personally I do not see anything that would cause me suspicion. Coloring and luster patterns sure look normal for that grade.[/QUOTE] Nice looking Barber for $70.00! He really did a horrible job listing it, with blurry photos and vague title. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Silver-coins-/251956682091?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa9c9dd6b
Good to see it worked out well. I'm not sure if it's the case here, but a clever scammer trick is mixing genuine coins with a few fake coins or perhaps just one fake coin, the fake coins usually but not always, are the more valuable coins in the lot, getting the mark to think that since the rest of the coins look real then they are all must be real. Yes, it's an old trick but it amazes me how it still works, especially on ebay.
I ended up with a fake indian head penny out of a roll like that years ago - it was a rare date, ironically it was mixed in with the same rare date that was legit among a bunch of other pennies in another roll. A guy at a coin show took the time to point out the differences and I thanked him for it. I ran the fake through a penny stamping machine in San Francisco and gave it to a friend of the family. Gotta wonder if he just forgot which was the fake pile and threw in the real one. Either way, it worked out for me.
