1795 flowing hair liberty real or fake??? 0

[Daemily]

Hello. I'm a newbie in coin collecting. And i need help in determining if my 1795 coin is real or a fake. Ty!

[JKK]

Fake. We see several most weeks. Not only is it fake, it's a nastily, brutally, obviously cleaned fake.

[Greenstang]

Not only is it a poor looking fake, it is a 1795 Draped Bust, not a Flowing Hair Bust.

[Just Bob]

Welcome to The Forum. Would you mind telling us how you came to be in possession of this piece?

[Daemily]

Bought it off from a collector

[Daemily]

Thank you all for your input

[Greenstang]

Hope you didn't pay too much for it. Can you get your money back?

FYI- If that coin was genuine, it would be worth at least $2500.00

[Daemily]

Spent only $50 for the coin. Funny thing is whoever faked this coin got the weight correct

[Just Bob]

2 hours ago, Daemily said:

Bought it off from a collector

This is such an obvious fake, one can only assume that the seller was either a novice collector or a crook. Either way, since it is not marked as a copy, when they took your money, they committed a crime. Selling fake coins violates the Hobby Protection Act.

[JKK]

1 hour ago, Daemily said:

Spent only $50 for the coin. Funny thing is whoever faked this coin got the weight correct

That's $50 too much and an illegal act by the seller. I suspect that if you called the seller and asked for your money back, presenting as an alternative that you might make your next call to the Treasury Department, I wonder if you might get a very quick refund.

[Conder101]

On 6/25/2020 at 8:24 PM, Just Bob said:

Either way, since it is not marked as a copy, when they took your money, they committed a crime. Selling fake coins violates the Hobby Protection Act.

Unless it was made before 1973.  The problem is, how to tell then it was made, and being able to prove it.