eBay rip of the month? 1920-S Walker...

The God in the "in god we trust" looks doubled

 

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Yes that date is funny looking at least, thank China for that [...]

 

Just curious, if an eBay purveyor of fakes is caught and stopped, all they have to do in order to resume operation is register with a different computer and a different name? Or is there some other level of prevention that eBay can apply?

 

I found a 1920 in similar condition for $49, and I am pretty sure it's not a Chinese knockoff.

 

Luster looks very wrong. If real, I'll bet it's whizzed.

 

Okay, apparently today we're going to party like it's 2011. Good times!

The 1920-P apparently isn't as hard to find in higher grades as the D and S. But if it's real and problem-free, I'd say you did really well. Even if it's lightly cleaned, you'd probably be able to get your money back out of it with the right buyer.

Edit: To be clear, I'm replying to @LA_Geezer's post from earlier today. I suspect other commenters are replying to my original post (from seven years ago). If so, I hope they'll read through the rest of the thread.

 

I'm no expert, but I'd agree that the overall look of the original (2011) coin is 'fuzzy and bumpy', not clean and crisp - I bought a similar looking bogus peace dollar on eBay

 

I would be willing to bet, you were an in-experienced noob when you posted this coin in 2011. I would also bet you could easily identify a chinese knock-off NOW 7 years later !!! Haha

I was wondering how many pages i had to read before someone pointed it out. The suspense was building as i scrolled. !!

Sidenote- I bought a fake 1920s Russian Silver coin once and posted...Mr @Insider was the 1st to catch it. He be good at counterfeit detection, and i learned alot that day.

 

Right on the first count, and I hope on the second as well.

 

Amen to that.

 

I bought some Chinese counterfeit French Indochina "silver" piasters. When I got them and saw that they were fakes I said that I would return them, but I would engrave the word "COPY" on them so that they didn't try to rip anyone else off. They told me to go ahead and keep them and that they would refund the money. I guess their profit margin is big enough that my purchase didn't hurt.

 

No damage to sun rays; nice feathers on legs and breast (not a sexist remark, Eagles!) mint mark very sharp; gdecent detail on figure's torso.

 

Kinda "muddy-looking" & little if any patina. You'd have to walk around with it in your pocket for quite a while to make it look less like a manufactured object.

 

I'm certainly no expert and I hope I'm wrong but my first impression when looking at your pictures is that it just doesn't look right. I can't exactly say what it is but I doubt I would buy it.

 

Two smoking guns that this second example on the thread is also a fake:
In God We Trust is different from the real coin. (I) The T's were corrected by the counterfeiter - the original T has a step in the top bar. (ii) The U is too fat.
Also the 2 in the date slants toward the 0, and does not close its loop quite as much.
Unless these are die varieties this is a counterfeit, and a noticeably improved one compared to the 2011 post.

 

A quick search did not show any die varieties for this year.
(& to avoid confusion note that the previous illustrated post was showing the 2011 example which had the very bad attempt at the date).

 

100% counterfeit

 

I was going to say that it looks cleaned, but I'm persuaded by the Chinese fake example.

 

Where's the mint mark. Honest i dont know

 

Oh. No mint mark on that one. Thought we were talking aboue s'es