I hope, I hope, I hope, but I think I know

It is very common for bag and lot sellers to salt them with replicas, hoping for a great feedback. I have seen a lot of (100) SVDB replicas go to a seller of " truly unsearched " wheat rolls.............

Even your small pic SCREAMS fake.

 

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Yeah, I couldn't see the pic real well but the S looks horrible to me. It looks slanted. The top looks stretched to the right, the bottom looks stretched to the left. It's gotta be a fake. What a sleezy thing to do.

Unsearched bags and rolls is just a gimmick to sell large batches of commons for good money, which otherwise would never be sold individually. As time goes on, more people will realize this and anybody would be a fool to try to sell a real unsearched bag. Heck, they'd be a fool to do it now.

I've noticed the coin shopping networks on tv pulling this same tactic with common stuff. They put together a whole series of mint sets and try to sell them at a premium because it's a whole set, which otherwise they wouldn't sell singly, or would sell very poorly.

They were doing the same thing with commemoratives last night. Instead of trying to sell them singly, they put together a batch of 20 basic commems and try to explain how good of a deal it is.

 

Yes, he has bought from me before as well, mainly teen rolls and lots of raggy semi keys.


I recognized the " truly unsearched" guys paypal address, then went into the wheats on the bay to double check, and sure enough, thats his ID.

In this case, truly unsearched means truly put together and crimped on my home roll crimper.

 

I don't know. Like everyone says need better resolution pics. The S looks to fat to me but hard to tell. Keep us informed about what you find out

 

With all the " iffy " replys here, I firmly belive that a genuine SVDB tutorial is in order . Education is what this forum excels in, lets get this done and save our members some possible pain and suffering.

Those who cannot recognise that as a chinese fake need to sign up. Class size is limited

 

Make a nice sticky.

Jim

 

Thanks everyone for the input. As I said I was suspect from the begining. I couldn't pin it down to anything in perticular except for the mintmark, but something just didn't look right with the coin. I don't think I will waste my money sending it in. I will just enjoy putting it in the empty hole in my wheat cent folder. Now if I could only find two more to fill the last two holes.
A little explination on purchasing pounds of wheats from ebay. My eight year old daughter loves to sit at the table with me and help read the mintmarks. (she doesn't even need a loop). We always enjoy coming up with a semi-key every once in a while. When its all said and done we sell the rolled coins at our church yard sale for 3.50ea.
Anyways I'm sure that stranger things than finding a rare wheatie have happened to all of us at one time or another. I'll just keep looking.
Again thanks everyone

 

Maybe I read this in Coin World recently but . . .

A guy bought a couple of dozen well-circulated Morgan Dollars at his local coin shop without looking at them closely. They were priced pretty much at melt.

Once he got home he found that one of them was a 1893-S. He had it slabbed by one of the top 2 TPGs and sold it to another dealer for $3,100. (The dealer he bought it from offered him over $2,000 for it without knowing where it came from. The guy never told the dealer that he had sold him the coin for less than $10.)

 

I suspect everyone is right here, but the upside is so great for that coin and the pic is so small for anyone to be positive, I would take that coin to a dealer just to be absolutely sure. It will cost you absolutely nothing