What's My 1873cc Sitting Liberty Trade Worth?

Hi, Can anybody help me Grade or Estimate what the Value is of this coin?

Thanks

 

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It is worth 100,000,000,000 sliztys

 

What's a sliztys?

 

a slizty is just something I made up for fun!

 

Try and take a picture with better lighting. It looks almost polished to me :\

Is that a cud on the obverse, around 12:00-1:00?

 

In other Words, The coin isn't worth the metal it's made of?

 

hahaha... I think he's just joking around

 

He is probably saying it as there are so many Chinese made CC trade dollars, that the probability of it being one is almost 50-50. Better and close up photos are necessary. Also where it was obtained, past ownership etc. might help.

Jim

 

When you say Chinese made, you mean Replicas or Fake Coins?

I am aware Rare coins are replicated but I have no way to be sure this one is. How do you determine that just by looking at a coin?

I will upload more pictures later. Thanks

 

Not necessarily replicas, more like counterfeits. The chinese counterfeit just about anything, and Trade Dollars are notorious for having more counterfeit than genuine examples.

 

You may have a point there.

I purchased this coin from a store owned by a Vietnamese who just came from Vacation for 20 dollars. I examined it before purchasing but couldn't find anything that would indicate it to be a fake so I bought with the mindset that it probably is.

I am hoping though it is not......for my sake.

 

Say no more. I hereby proclaim this coin to be fake. :hammer:

 

:hammer:.....Nah, not yet.....lol

 

If it's real, it would go for between $3,000-$7000. I'm 99.9999999999% sure you have a fake.

 

try to return it and see what they say / if they'll return your money.

 

There were only 124,500 1873-CC Trade Dollars Minted. It's surely a counterfeit whoever sold this to you wouldn't just happen upon a rare coin like this and if they did they would seek professional help to authenticate it before deciding to sell it for $20.00. I see so many of these my poor mother in law bought one in Mexico while on vacation it was an 1870-S Trade dollar she was so excited when she showed me she could hardly wait to sell it and make a ton of money. Well when I told her they weren't minted until 1873 and she had been sold a counterfeit well you can guess what she said next.

 

ON to EBAY!!!!!!

 

I sure don't like the denticles on this counterfeit.

 

Agreed - all of the prior joking around in this thread aside, it is a counterfeit. The denticles being separated from the rim are a dead giveaway.

 

Fake
As described in earlier post. Denticles do not look good.
Here is a pic of a authentic Trade Dollar
Shamelessly ripped from Heritage Auctions.