Real or Counterfeit?

Just bought this on eBay. Seller has many positive reviews. 1957 1c PF 68 RD Cameo. Bought it for $37 and change. Thing that bugs me a little is the NGC sticker on the back of the holder. Thx.

 

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well.....the NGC price guide says it is worth $575....so considering it was sold at about 1/15th the price....sounds fishy....that looks like the old NGC slab, and i do not own any of those style. all of the stickers on mine are full length, not half length like that one. call NGC.

 

http://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/index.aspx?CertNumber=270592-004

Your coin's cert-number checks out on NGC's website. The holder is obviously an older one (early 2000's maybe) and nothing jumps out at me in regards to it being a forgery. I'd say it's real.

 

wait. if you do a certification check it says $575. but if you click on the coin details it puts the value at about what you paid. this is weird. i am going to bow out and say i dont know enough about this to help. sorry.

 

Looks perfectly fine to me. I own several NGC coin holders just like that one.

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Two NGC certified ones with the same grade sold in April 2013 for $258 & $1057. I looked up the coin in the cert lookup also and it looks good. I just bought an NGC certified 1957 cameo proof nickel for $15 on ebay the other week in the same holder. It books for $100+. Very hard to find cameo proofs from that year even though the mintage was very high that year.

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There are NGC slabs where that size hologram sticker was used. Whether it was used with that label on the front I don't know, someone else will have to answer that.
If it's legit, you stole that coin.

 

I looked it up with the NGC app and it came up with no picture available. Sorry.

 

I have owned many ngc slabs with the sticker on the back like that. What does the coin book in the lower proof grade? PF67?

 

It's fine.

 

Turns out to be one of the greatest deal EVER!!!

 

You're absolutely correct.

 

Wow. Great purchase!

 

if i saw another NGC slab with the same size sticker on the back, or had NGC themselves say that is normal, i would feel more comfortable. i mean, if it is legit, and you paid $37, you got an amazing deal. but just as you came here because you had a question, i believe we are questioning the same thing, that small sticker....

 

I'm no questioning the small sticker...that is the way NGC stickers looked in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

 

oh good man. i have been looking and couldnt find those. thats cool for the OP!

 

If memory serves me correct, the Chinese aren't so hell-bent on trying to forge older slabs, like the one pictured in the original post. (Although I could be wrong)

A little less than 6 years ago these were published concerning fake slabs:

http://coins.about.com/od/coingrading/ig/Fake-PCGS-Slab-Diagnostics/
http://www.ngccoin.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=954

(Granted, there's more articles and threads out there, these were just the two I had bookmarked for quick reference.)

This site, though cataloging only sample slabs, could always be of service as well. I believe this is Conder101's site (someone correct me if I'm wrong), who is a poster on most of the coin forums.

http://www.sampleslabs.com/

 

If it is too good to be true...

 

the pictures make the coin look (to me) like it wouldn't grade 68 Cameo if it were submitted today. I would be interested to see the coin in hand, because at PF-68 Cameo, it should look a whole lot better than those pictures