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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Thank you so much for showing the differences in these coins to us. I have to admit that I would have been fooled.
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Valued Member
United States
100 Posts |
I agree, the rim and edges are a clue. The color of the coin appears to be a poor silver. The asain fakes always have a different hue to the color of the coin, even if it is true silver. I wonder if the US mints use a coloring or bleaching process for the silver!
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Valued Member
United States
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Geeze! That was amazing to see. That's why ebay scares me. I don't think I would spend more than $20 on any coin because I'm not good enough to tell the difference, especially with good ones like these out there. Caveat Emptor. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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When it comes to fakes, I have just been trolling through an auction catalogue where there a quite a few lots of fake coins, with 20 to 100 fake coins in each lot, which are being auctioned as fakes. The U.S. silver dollar fakes are estimated at around $5 each, and appear to be about as good as the one discussed here.
They are touted as being good for a reference collection for comparison purposes.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1388 Posts |
Good fake, there was pitting around the date
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1388 Posts |
Good fake, there was pitting around the date
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1388 Posts |
Good fake, there was pitting around the date
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2077 Posts |
You'd think that if they went to all that trouble to copy it, they'd do it at 100% scaling.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10038 Posts |
 I can't understand why they did not do it perfect. They obviously have the capability. Of course I also know none of the process they use to produce these coins. I have other denomination fakes which are definitly cast and the pitting gives them away. But I also know that Big Tree was using dies to punch their coins - there were pics of this online before. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2Edited by Earle42
06/13/2012 11:19 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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what fantastic information
thank you
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New Member
United States
12 Posts |
Here is a photo of hundreds of pounds of "BU" Half Cents, large cents, and Indianhead cents, secretly taken in China.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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thanks for the info earle best way to tell now its definately the edge thats going to give it away
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3234 Posts |
That copy is actually pretty good. Who knows...maybe I'd be duped when seeing that coin in hand.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@doug3333 - Gotta love the "legitimate replica manufacturers" over in China nowadays, eh?
The scary thing is that every year they're getting better, but the scarier thing is that even the crap fakes STILL pass genuine more often than not. :-)
Edited by SteveCaruso
06/13/2012 9:28 pm
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