Posted 04/28/2023 6:51 pm
So, the story how I got this coin. About 5 years ago I won an ebay auction for a 5 lire crown coin, nothing special, mostly a stacker coin. Instead I was sent this coin, which if real could be worth $1,000. I did not think it was genuine, but not clearly a fake, and wrote the guy about the "mix-up", and said if he wanted I would just keep it and let it go at that, figuring I got a 20 gram silver coin instead of a 25 gram silver coin (if I was right about it being silver). He did not ask for the coin back.
As to why it is fake, the circumstances of how I got it makes me believe that. Maybe the seller tried to slab it and learned about it, and then found a way to get something out of it.
A guy at a coin shop looked at the distorted/dinged edge shown in my third picture and said maybe that is where a casting was filled. Counterfeits of the coin are out there.
https://www.ngccoin.in/resources/co...op/world/12/
They report: "Most counterfeit examples of this type are older transfer die fakes. While they are pretty high quality, they often have spikes emerging from the reeding."
There was a post about another coin like it 3 years ago here. That coin looks more questionable to me. Commentary suggested that looking at the edge carefully could be key to making a determination.
http://goccf.com/t/380915
The coin looks fairly good. Nothing is that obviously wrong with it. If it were a $60 coin I might figure it was genuine. It was how I got the coin that makes me believe it is fake, and the fact that that more than a few counterfeits are out there.
As to why it is fake, the circumstances of how I got it makes me believe that. Maybe the seller tried to slab it and learned about it, and then found a way to get something out of it.
A guy at a coin shop looked at the distorted/dinged edge shown in my third picture and said maybe that is where a casting was filled. Counterfeits of the coin are out there.
https://www.ngccoin.in/resources/co...op/world/12/
They report: "Most counterfeit examples of this type are older transfer die fakes. While they are pretty high quality, they often have spikes emerging from the reeding."
There was a post about another coin like it 3 years ago here. That coin looks more questionable to me. Commentary suggested that looking at the edge carefully could be key to making a determination.
http://goccf.com/t/380915
The coin looks fairly good. Nothing is that obviously wrong with it. If it were a $60 coin I might figure it was genuine. It was how I got the coin that makes me believe it is fake, and the fact that that more than a few counterfeits are out there.
