1/2 million dollar Merc dime?

[jeffandmistie(TEXAS)]

What do you guys make of this? Fake?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180225630624&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=008

 

[Siegfried Schlagrule]

mini coins are made for every coin and are sold as novelties. Maybe they used a phony date to avoid counterfeiting charges. Most patterns which is what the guy is claiming to have are full size but made with various metals to test striking and wearing abilities of the design. Almost always the pattern will only partially resemble the actual eventual coin design. siegfried schlagrule

 

[BuckleBoy]

With those poor details, that coin is likely a mini. If it had any possibility of being genuine, eBay would NOT be the place to sell it. I would want to see authentication papers--and hold someone accountable for it if the coin were fake--and this coin isn't even his. It's a "post for a friend." FISHY!

Just my 2c


-Buckleboy

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I declare Shenanagins! Shenanagins!


Can't fake something that never was. It's a non-coin. They weren't minted that year, they weren't minted that size. The government made no dies that size (dimes,and all coins, are "mandated" by government specifications, approved by Congress and there are good records kept).

Weinman (who had studied under Augustus Saint-Gaudens) won a 1915 competition against two other artists for the design job, and is thought to have modeled his version of Liberty on Elsie Kachel Stevens, wife of noted poet Wallace Stevens The reverse design, a fasces juxtaposed with an olive branch, was intended to symbolize America's readiness for war, combined with its desire for peace. The fasces would later become a symbol of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's Fascist National Party, leading some to criticize the dime's design

So the design wasn't even accepted or formalized until 1915!

If you're going to do a pattern concept die you make it BIGGER to get the design right. I believe they cast like 10" plaster trials back then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosev...ty_Head_.28Mercury.29_.281916.E2.80.931945.29

I'm afraid that for $500K the burden of proof is on the seller. Heck, for $50 the burden would be on him to prove it's a true coin.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/4876275

Here's one at auction (upper left - also 1914) expected to sell for $10 to $20.

 

[jeffandmistie(TEXAS)]

$500,000 ..... BUT it has FREE shipping! :P

 

[jeff of pa]

There are alot of Uninformed People out
there.

That's how the Shopping channels and
Magazine Adds pull in Suckers.

MY Guess he's one of the Unimformed
By the way he posted the add
and Actually believes it may be a coin.

I Don't think he would have Priced it so high
IF He were trying to take somone over.

IF He was I'd say he would have started it at $50 or $100

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Well, I sent him the image and link to the auction house so now he knows. I'm sure he'll confir with them correct the ebaY listing shortly.

 

[BARGuy]

I dug a mini dime a coupla weeks ago...don't remember the date...not a merc...found one like it on the net in top condition for less than $20. Just a novelty like a two-headed coin.

I think somebody's trying to see just how gullible e-bayers are!

 

[jeff of pa]

I think somebody's trying to see just how gullible e-bayers are!

EBayers are only gullible when it comes to Pancakes & Corn flakes
carve a face in to it, you'll make a mint.

 

[deepskyal]

Well, I never!

Are you trying to say my coin with God's fingerprints on it is a fake?

I tossed some money in the air to give thanks and told God what stayed in the air was his, and what fell back was mine.

I coulda sworn one coin hovered a second before it fell and...and I'll be darned...there was a fingerprint on it. Had to be God's!

I was just getting ready to auction it on Ebay.
Al

 

[handy]

funny how on his rateing all his rateings are from buying stuff off ebay