Coin is bogus, story likely equally bogus

[JIM F.]

Get an Ebay account in the backwoods. Get some fantasy coins. Makeup a story, and viola -- make a profit! No accusations here, you judge for yourself.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Confederate-5-Dollar-Coin-1862_W0QQitemZ180554218983QQcategoryZ523QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D5884285634468772126

 

[RockMyAmadeus]

I prefer cellos myself...

[MJ]

Jed Clamplett..............MJ

[WoodenJefferson]

*Well, lets see here,

 

Item Location: carrollton, KY, United States

 

*Yet he says he lives in TX

 

I live in tx i was out hunting and found this coin near a old abandoned railroad track

 

14 bids and it's up to $51.00

 

*So far know one knows anything about the 5 Dollars on the back and what it really means.

 

[physics-fan3.14]

I don't understand how some person_having_a_hard_time_understanding_my_point scammer puts up obviously fake bogus and gets crazy high bids from equally retarded bidders. But when I put up genuine US mint produced silver coins, they go for fractions of melt.

 

I freakin' hate Ebay sometimes.

[bsshog40]

It's also amazing of how many people don't have the common sense to find out that this is not a real coin. Money thrown away!!

[JIM F.]

Too bad he couldn't add banjo music, with a verbal description audio clip with a hick accent like those jokers from the "coin vault"!

 

 

[RUSS BEGA]

I will say it's an interesting piece, there were rumors of the CSA striking gold coins....... anybody got $52 i can borrow? i think i'm about to strike it rich

[shirohniichan]

it also helps when you write in all lower case letters without punctuation and run on sentences but i dont know too much about this because i havent sold anything on ebay in ages

[WoodenJefferson]

At one time, probably in the fall of 1962, it was intended to be sacrificial token

on the local train tracks...at the last moment, a gust of wind from the approaching

engine mysteriously blew it off the top of the rail, later to be found by a Texan jack

rabbit hunter.

 

True story.

[Old Pueblo]

Someone might up the bid if the seller allowed returns

[johnny9434]

run, never look back on this one.

[rrantique]

[Conder101]

I will say it's an interesting piece, there were rumors of the CSA striking gold coins...

Not a rumor, they did strike gold coins 1861-O double eagles (2.991 coins), 1861-D gold dollars (mintage unknown,), and 887 1861-C half eagles. Of course they used Union dies for all of them.