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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 4994889, member: 74282&quot;]The style is wrong. The relief is two dimensional and lacking the 3 dimensional qualities of an authentic example, the dies just don&#039;t look like they were made by hand but by some sort of machine. The way the border of dots disappears on the obverse is unnatural and does not look like a flat struck area, a wear artifact or a clogged die but looks like they&#039;re missing on the die which is never a good sign. The weight is far too high for the type. The coin doesn&#039;t appear to have any actual wear, just a die cut to uniform levels all over, giving it an appearance of wear.</p><p><br /></p><p>Overall, the coin just does not look anything like an authentic example. In addition there are at least two nearly exact twins of it for sale on eBay at the same time.</p><p><br /></p><p>For what it&#039;s worth, you can&#039;t pay attention to eBay feedback. It can easily be manipulated and fakesellers are very good at it, but really they don&#039;t even have to manipulate it in most cases because the people buying the coins don&#039;t know they&#039;re buying fakes so they&#039;ll happily leave good feedback thinking they got a $1000 coin for almost nothing and won&#039;t realize they&#039;ve been had until it&#039;s too late. If they do initiate a return, as long as the fakeseller honors the return they can usually get eBay to remove the bad feedback, if the buyer even leaves it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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