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<p>[QUOTE="hamrwood, post: 700840, member: 20812"]<a href="http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucitsrh/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucitsrh/" rel="nofollow">http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucitsrh/</a></p><p> </p><p>This is a link to some coins the GSA in auctioning on 5 OCT. I am not only a novice, and generally not very smart, but this smells like that rotting thing in Denmark. After an afternoon on the Internet, I think I can conclude that one piece is one of those "Liberty" NORFED jobs, one is an "1882" Mexican Reales, a large Buffalo Gold---but it seems to be a copy, a Gold Double Eagle, with "E Pluribus Unum" where the denomination---e.g "Twenty Dollars" should be, and some other pieces of spurious origin such as the large gold piece that shows "Seal of the President, Washington D.C." on the reverse. In addition, there is a silver looking Lincoln Cent as large as a silver dollar dated 1987. My sense is there might be one or two real coins here, but too many appear to be copies, or foreign mintage---Liberia?</p><p> </p><p>Any thoughts out there?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hamrwood, post: 700840, member: 20812"][URL]http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucitsrh/[/URL] This is a link to some coins the GSA in auctioning on 5 OCT. I am not only a novice, and generally not very smart, but this smells like that rotting thing in Denmark. After an afternoon on the Internet, I think I can conclude that one piece is one of those "Liberty" NORFED jobs, one is an "1882" Mexican Reales, a large Buffalo Gold---but it seems to be a copy, a Gold Double Eagle, with "E Pluribus Unum" where the denomination---e.g "Twenty Dollars" should be, and some other pieces of spurious origin such as the large gold piece that shows "Seal of the President, Washington D.C." on the reverse. In addition, there is a silver looking Lincoln Cent as large as a silver dollar dated 1987. My sense is there might be one or two real coins here, but too many appear to be copies, or foreign mintage---Liberia? Any thoughts out there?[/QUOTE]
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