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Pillar of the Community
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Valued Member
Canada
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It's a solid half gram overweight from what remember so not a great sign.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Looks like a Chinese cast, but I may be wrong.
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United States
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 looks very much like a cast counterfeit.. |
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New Member
Canada
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This is the front the reason I'm not 100% sure what it is. Is because its also an exact match to a PCGS. Graded coin. But I'm almost leaning to the forgery part due to what I would call graineyness on the coin.
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Valued Member
Canada
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100% fake. The I's in the inscription around Victoria's portrait are very ill-defined, the area inside the 0 of 50 cents is too small & way off - it should be an oval, not a line, and the H mintmark is way too high into the bough. For comparison, here is what a genuine (and PCGS certified) 1871H 50 cent piece should look like: https://www.cdncoin.com/product-p/3...25166708.htm |
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Ya I figured as much saw that pic already.lol was just hopefull it was a die error due to breakage ar grease filling. But as much as a dont want to admit it I do believe its a fake.now I must go and cry for a while.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Counterfeit has All the markers
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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the markers have been available for 10 plus years.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Mikey .. send me your new email address. Your old one doesn't work for me.
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Pillar of the Community
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now I must go and cry for a while. This. Anyone who has ever argued in favour of having these counterfeit coins for "educational purposes" needs to think long and hard about what damage these fakes do to our hobby. This is why some of us fight so hard against this stuff being in Canada.... they need to be destroyed, when we encounter them. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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China has turned a blind eye to the export of these coins, and there appears to be no shortage of people out there willing to make a buck at the expense of someone else. Worse yet, some of these coins have changed hands more than once, and the current owners have no idea what they are holding. The bullion market is dealing with the exact same problems, with even assay card gold wafers being faked: serial numbers, packaging, and all. Chinese counterfeits are becoming a scourge to nearly every industry, from handbags to machine bearings to prescription drugs.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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There was a catalog laying out at my kid's viola teacher's house. The front and inside cover had "how to identify" counterfeit violin strings! That kind of blew me away. Fake Chinese violin strings and packaging. There's nothing they won't counterfeit.
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