Counterfeit Detection: Outlandish Alteration Of A Chinese Dollar

PCGS - With vintage Chinese coins I have come to see unimaginably fantastic forgeries and alterations. Yet one alteration goes above and beyond. In a submission from the PCGS Asia office in Hong Kong a coin was submitted as a Chinese Manchuria Year 33 (1907) Dollar, however the entire coin had been altered from a much more common China Chihli Province Dollar.



The dollar coinage from the China Manchurian Province is much scarcer than those coins from the Chihli Province and hence are much more expensive. With the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, most of the dollar coins were seized and melted for their silver content, making survivors rare today. As such, many counterfeits have been produced and sold into the marketplace as real coins. Yet, altering a coin to make it into a Manchurian Province piece isn't as common.



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