Conder101

I would assume they thought it was a regular business strike that someone plated and the plating wore off.  They didn't recognize it as a worn Gilt restrike piece produced by the SoHo mint.

Definitely looks like a Peck 1073 that has had the gilt worn off.  Not the regular issue.

Polished, looks like others that I have seen polished with a product called Semichrome.

And slightly amusing.

If the images are important in conveying fine details I would prefer the larger size for the larger image.  If they aren't as critical then I find the 7X10 size more convenient.

No, they are business strikes made for circulation.

I would say in general a die crack does not add value unless it is an identifying feature of a specific rare die stage of a given variety.

This is what is called a Dryer Coin (Sometimes also called a spooned coin)  it has been caught in a commercial dryer or other machine where it has rolled around why pressure or light impacts have occurred to the edge of the coin.  It causes the edge to broaden while it reduces the diameter of the coin.  The term spooned coins coms from the fact that years ago people used to use a table spoon to lightly and continuously tap on the edge of a quarter or half dollar preading the edge and reducing the diameter to the proper size, then drilling out the center making a silver ring out of them.  The table spoon was heavy enough to eventually cause the spreading but light enough to reduce the possibility of badly denting the edge of the ring/coin.

OK 1776 Russian 5 kopeck, got a question or just hijacking the thread because of the date?

Or exhausted from Baltimore.

Now Karen I was nice to you on the other forums.
True, but many don't do that either.
The WYNTK forums are "What you need to know" and I believe they ae found on the World, ancient, and US forum.  (Have to admit I'm not sure, I don't believe I've ever read them.   )

Out of my league here but I don't like the looks of it either.

No.  Coins specially made for collectors do tend to come in higher grades than they did in the past, but a 70 is NOT a given.  Grades below PF-68 or MS-67 are unusual though.  Problem is there are enough PF-70, or MS-70 or 69 to make anything that grades lower a dead item in the market.

Of course a proof Saint won't be "prooflike".

I agree it is the same coin in both pictures.  Different lighting which causes different features to be "highlighted".  But if you look carefully you can see the same marks on both coins such as the pit in the cheekbone and the three dentical hit marks in the right field behind the neck (and there are other marks as well).  Same marks in the same place on both coins.  So once again we have someone making the claim of a switched coin but his own evidence shows it wasn't switched.
And unless this is some rare variety that I don't know about it looks like he paid $30 or so to slab a coin that's worth $1.

He has 14 posts, 12 of them in coin marketplace showing off coins or offering them for sale on a website, 1 post showing an 1839 O half that was slabbed as a PF-64 by NGC which he apparently cracked and sent to PCGS and they declined to call it a proof.  The last post is the one here where he is apparently miffed at PCGS for not apologizing, probably for not calling it a proof coin.

I have seen at least one counterfeit CAC sticker.  And if it can be done once, it can be done again.
True but the cost to add a fake sticker to fake slab is minimal and it will increase the profit even more.  Put a fake coin (big profit) in a fake slab (even more profit) and add a sticker that basically cost nothing and increase the profit again.  Sounds like a business plan that would appeal to some people.

I agree it is the same coin in both pictures.  Different lighting which causes different features to be "highlighted".  But if you look carefully you can see the same marks on both coins such as the pit in the cheekbone and the three dentical hit marks in the right field behind the neck (and there are other marks as well).  Same marks in the same place on both coins.  So once again we have someone making the claim of a switched coin but his own evidence shows it wasn't switched.
And unless this is some rare variety that I don't know about it looks like he paid $30 or so to slab a coin that's worth $1.

I agree it is the same coin in both pictures.  Different lighting which causes different features to be "highlighted".  But if you look carefully you can see the same marks on both coins such as the pit in the cheekbone and the three dentical hit marks in the right field behind the neck (and there are other marks as well).  Same marks in the same place on both coins.  So once again we have someone making the claim of a switched coin but his own evidence shows it wasn't switched.
And unless this is some rare variety that I don't know about it looks like he paid $30 or so to slab a coin that's worth $1.

There have been claims like that off and on for years. Usually there is no good evidence, I can recall at least one case where it was true.  Not because they were trying to keep the guys coin, but because a shipment got sent to the wrong person. The error was quickly corrected and the coins returned to the proper owners. Frankly I am always skeptical of such claims because I can't see a multi million dollar business  whose reputation is based on faith to risk that to steal a coin worth a few hundred or even thousands.

There have been claims like that off and on for years. Usually there is no good evidence, I can recall at least one case where it was true.  Not because they were trying to keep the guys coin, but because a shipment got sent to the wrong person. The error was quickly corrected and the coins returned to the proper owners. Frankly I am always skeptical of such claims because I can't see a multi million dollar business  whose reputation is based on faith to risk that to steal a coin worth a few hundred or even thousands.

That isn't a reason for why his coin isn't real.  It just shows that there are dies out there for making counterfeits.  And by the way, his coin did NOT come from that counterfeiter or from any of those dies.  Those fake dies are MUCH better than the ones that made his piece.

It is almost certainly one of the tens or hundreds of thousands of fakes floating around.  You won't get in any trouble for posting a picture of a fake.  There are none of the known genuine coins that are stolen at the moment so there is no chance of it being a stolen specimen.  And if by some chance it is genuine, the authorities ar NOT going to come after it.  The 1804 dollars have a long history of being accepted as legal to own.

And the values in neither one bear any relationship to real-life.

It would be the eighth different reverse doubled die discovered for that year.