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<p>[QUOTE="Hiddendragon, post: 1761823, member: 25270"]Sorry, I typed an explanation but it seems to have vanished into thin air. Anyway, this is what I said:</p><p> </p><p>I was browsing Italian coins on eBay and I saw this listing for a 1928 20 lire, which is quite valuable. Krause lists it at $150 in the lowest grade. I was looking up the listing in Krause and I noticed that while Krause shows a picture with the king on one side, this coin has Mussolini on it. I remember reading on a previous Cointalk thread that no coins with Mussolini were ever made, but that some fantasy coins were made, so this is a fake. It looks authentically old though so that's interesting. I contacted the seller who I don't think is intentionally misleading people. Here's the link, but it might get taken down so I saved the photos. <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/310713178158?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/310713178158?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/310713178158?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hiddendragon, post: 1761823, member: 25270"]Sorry, I typed an explanation but it seems to have vanished into thin air. Anyway, this is what I said: I was browsing Italian coins on eBay and I saw this listing for a 1928 20 lire, which is quite valuable. Krause lists it at $150 in the lowest grade. I was looking up the listing in Krause and I noticed that while Krause shows a picture with the king on one side, this coin has Mussolini on it. I remember reading on a previous Cointalk thread that no coins with Mussolini were ever made, but that some fantasy coins were made, so this is a fake. It looks authentically old though so that's interesting. I contacted the seller who I don't think is intentionally misleading people. Here's the link, but it might get taken down so I saved the photos. [url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/310713178158?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649[/url][/QUOTE]
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