Ally Bank "Lucky Pennies"

Although I was being facetious about the counterfeit remark, since there were questions posted...

The Chinese fakes would not be made to be placed on the streets, but sold with the idea that the shyster buying the fake would report it to claim the 1000.00.

In China, labor payment is so little that having the dies made would likely be very inexpensive compared to one being made here. I believe An outfit like Big Tree (possibly the largest Chinese fake coins makers) already have the in-house ability. Seeing pictures of the huge collection of dies they have is rather scary.

Seeing as most of what Big Tree sells goes for $1.50 a fake, Big Tree could set their purchase price for fake Ally Pennies @ $250.00, thus leaving the (illegitimate) finder $750.00.


On the Dark Web, people 1/2 "face value" cost for legitimate looking counterfeit currency (different countries) in large bundles. Big Tree asking for 1/3 reward for an Ally Penny value would be a bargain for crooks who do things like this.

Sad world we live in.

Always love the way you ground us, JBuck.

I, personally, don't see the difference between this and the Sunoco coins of the (whenever they were '70's) as long as they don't try to pass them as legal tender.

The best we can hope for is that this will renew interest in looking for and collecting coins again. Worst case is that someone gets a bad penny.

I suppose that fake pennies might undermine our economy at some breakpoint but I think it would take more effort and cost more than it is worth.

That would be a true numismatist

Well the real ones are supposed to have an verification code on the reverse. Since fake ones wouldn't have valid codes they couldn't be used to claim the $1,000 prizes. So all a counterfeiter could do would be to try and sell them to people and then disappear before the buyers learn they have fake codes. Offering to sell tokens that can be redeemed for $1K for $250? yeah I'm sure you will find a few foolish suckers, but it sounds like more work than it is worth.

If I found one of these tokens I would take the 100,000 cents and coin roll hunt for the next year or so. (My social life isn't that great!)

@KenKat


Thanks for the bucketful of laughs.

When I was math teacher I duplicated the Golden Tickets from the original show by changed a but of the wording. Basically if a student got a 100& on the homework for a chapter and the chapter review, they did not have to take the test for the chapter (they always had to show every step they took in figuring out their answer).

The only one I ever was able to award was to a kid who took the test anyway instead of turning in the ticket. When I asked him why he wanted to take the test he said b/c the ticket looked authentic enough that he wanted to keep it! And, yes, of course we both knew he would get an A anyway... which he did.

Their website gives detailed clues to where to find them.

Great for advertising. Anytime you can get your brand on the news for good without having to pay for the advertising. And make people talk about your company.