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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mitchell, post: 13415, member: 989&quot;]Here is the wording of the auction that I almost got suckered on.&nbsp; <b>1879 &quot;GSA&quot; CARSON CITY MORGAN SILVER DOLLAR </b> </p><p><br /></p><p>The seller walks a fine line, and fortunately, people like CohibaCris can see through this.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t\didn&#039;t.&nbsp; Neither did several others that posted negative feedback.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The body of the auction description was :</p><p><br /></p><p><i>1879 &quot;GSA&quot; CARSON CITY MORGAN SILVER DOLLAR ** HERALDING THE MOST PRECIOUS &quot;GSA&quot; CARSON CITY MORGAN** ****** NO RESERVE ******</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Minted from 1878 to 1885 and then from 1889 to 1893, fewer than 2% of all Morgans bear the precious &quot;CC&#039;&quot; mint mark. Their heavy, 3/4oz silver content came from the most famous silver strike ever in U.S. history, the Comstock Lode near Carson City, Nevada. &quot;CC&quot; dollars were minted and circulated at a time when much of America was a wild frontier. But in the next century hundreds of millions of Morgans were melted by the U.S. government, as well as by speculators and silver profiteers. The &quot;CC&quot; Morgan became more and more scarce.</i></p><p><i>Then, during a 1964 inventory audit, U.S. Treasury agents uncovered an astonishing hoard hidden away and overlooked for over 60 years - a stash of uncirculated Carson City Morgan Silver Dollars! To Protect these magnificent coins, the government&#039;s General Services Administration (GSA) sealed them in special plastic holders and offered them for sale, first-come, first-served, to the public. Demand for these dollars with the famous &quot;CC&quot; mintmark was so great, that the GSA oversold their stock and had to return payment to over 200,000 collectors because their orders could not be filled! Of all the &quot;CC&quot; Morgans sealed by the GSA in 1964, none was scarcer or more desirable than the precious 1879 &quot;CC&quot; Morgan. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Now, you can reserve your own 1879 &#039;GSA&#039; Carson City Morgan Silver Proof. It&#039;s the rare 1879 GSA Morgan silver dollar as a 100 Mil Pure Silver Proof, complete in deluxe custom holder. Miss Liberty&#039;s magnificently engraved head is profiled in frosted relief above the 1879 date on a mirror-like background on the obverse. The majestic American Eagle displays its full wing span in frosted relief on a mirror-like background on the reverse, and the magic &quot;CC&quot; mint mark is clearly visible under the wreath. minted by the National Collector&#039;s Mint</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Specifications:</i></p><p><i>Composition: 100 Mil .999 Pure Silver Clad Base</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Weight: 1 ounce. avdp</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Diameter: 39mm Silver Dollar Size </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Condition: Individually Struck Proof </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Edition Limit: 2,250 </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>includes CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY </i></p><p><br /></p><p>I dug deeper through the sellers feedback, and noticed that anywhere terms like &quot;copy&quot; and &quot;replica&quot; were used, the item number was private; so I could not see what the buyers were discussing, or their points.&nbsp; One even said &quot;sold a 1879 GSA CC Replica as real and would not refund money&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>CohibaCris saved me the loss, but in hindsight, the info was there in the feedback, if I had just taken more time to dig through it.&nbsp; It is one thing to pay $25 dollars for a coin that is called &quot;BU&quot; to find out it is really &quot;EF&quot; or cleaned.&nbsp; It is another thing to pay $120 for a $30 replica.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again CohibaCris.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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