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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 8722129, member: 19165&quot;]Well, it is quite clearly a fairly low quality fake. I don&#039;t own any Flowing Hair halves, but I am currently in the middle of reading Steve Tompkins book on the subject. Highly recommend you add it to your library! </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, 3 reasons people bid something like this up: </p><p>1. They don&#039;t know what they are looking at. They found a value somewhere, and they are just bidding blindly.</p><p>2. Greed. They are hoping they&#039;ll get lucky, cherrypick a rare coin, and win the lottery. </p><p>3. Sometimes, if a coin like this is posted on a website like this, or shared between knowledgeable collectors, those knowledgeable collectors will bid this up to a very high level in order to make sure that some poor fool doesn&#039;t get duped. They will then cancel the sale or report the item to Ebay. Ebay is a lot more likely to do something if someone actually buys an item that is then fake. And that way, the collectors are helping to protect to community. Can&#039;t say if that&#039;s what&#039;s happening here, but I&#039;ve seen it happen several times (that I know of).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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