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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;earlyrarecoins, post: 395262, member: 15054&quot;]<a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/NICE-1885-S-SEATE-LIBERTY-DIME_W0QQitemZ320271417851QQihZ011QQcategoryZ11958QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/NICE-1885-S-SEATE-LIBERTY-DIME_W0QQitemZ320271417851QQihZ011QQcategoryZ11958QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/NICE-1885-S-SEATE-LIBERTY-DIME_W0QQitemZ320271417851QQihZ011QQcategoryZ11958QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This coin will go for thousands of dollars, but it is not a genuine 1885-S.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The mintmark is completely wrong, and there is no question that it is a counterfeit.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t mean to clog up these forums with ebay counterfeit threads, but this is a sneaky coin that only the experts will catch.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Someone could be ripped off for thousands of dollars in a heartbeat.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is the photo in the auction, the wrong mintmark:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk5/CopperTonedCentz/85s1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And this is a genuine 1885-S, with a genuine mintmark:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk5/CopperTonedCentz/85s2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It is very important for everyone to know what to look for when they are buying key date, expensive coins.&nbsp; Luckily, this counterfeit was crudely done, and anyone who knows the series can spot this in a minute.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But your average collector might not pick up on it, and they would stand to lose thousands of dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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