Couple More Fake Coins For My Collection

GR58,
On a recent order, IndianGoldEagle gave me a fake Morgan dollar free (we both new it was fake, so no problem there). Would you like to add it to your fake collection?

Its sitting in the extra page of my WIP Morgan dollar set. Send me a PM of your address and you can have it. Glad its going to someone that would enjoy it more than I.

It is absolutely necessary to learn how to identify fake coins. One way is to buy them, provided they are sold honestly as fake coins, and share them here with all of us in the CCF, and to show how and why they are fake.

The best way to address and deal with this problem is education.

Most dealers worth their salt have a private 'dark' reference collection, for the education of their employees, so that they may learn to identify any fake coins offered to the business.

That is why I maintain a 'dark' reference collection myself.

You have to beat the fakers at their own game, by using their own products against them.

I saw a fake 1916 D Mercury dime today. I forgot to ask if it was for sale.
I was buying coins .. easy to forget about fake coins.

How can you tell the Trade dollar is fake? I don't own any old american stuff, what gives it away?

In hand, this coin does not look quite right, because of
a cast appearance instead of a struck coin.

It is 1.2 grams light, enough to make you start to worry on a Trade dollar

Also there are a couple spots, as Bryan1315 posted the Eagles left leg looks like something Megatron would have,
and there is a spot right above "God" in In god we trust
that I think shows it was a cast coin.

When looking at raw Trade dollars, a collector should be looking more for signs of it being a fake coin then any other series.

I was thinking about counterfeiting coins. I would assume the person making the coins would make sure

1. The impression looked appropriate
2. The diameter of the coin was close
3. The weight was close

Everyone would know if the image of a coin was incorrect. Secondly, if you made a quarter the size of a nickel that would be obvious so the counterfeiter would ensure the diameter was nearly correct. Now comes the tricky part the weight. I do believe it would be very difficult to ensure the weight was correct. I think it would be relatively easy to spot a fake by merely weighing the coin.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

bobby131313, I look forward to what CCF may have in store for us on counterfeit coins. I, like GR58 have started collecting them too. I know they're fake when I buy them, and for just a few bucks, I may be able to learn from them.