1798 Liberty Dollar (Confirmed Fake! Thanks Guys!)

OMG, that coin looks like it came straight out of a cereal box. I hope you didn't pay much, or anything for it.

What a real one looks like:

Hello Community members,
First of all I would like to thank you guys for your great sense of humor love it! Yeah I had a feeling it might be a fake due to the fact that it seemed to good to be true. Now that I look at it very carefully the forth star on the right side of the face doesn't even look like a star. Good thing I didn't pay anything for it. I got it from a female friend who gave it to me out of love. Now I suspect her love for me was as fake as this coin. lol. I wonder if this coin has any silver in it, its very light and it might have some, not sure; most likely it wont. Thanks alot guys! appreciate the quick answers and you all have a great day!
Once again thanks!
Louis!

p.s. on a side note, any idea how much a $100 gold certificate note from 1928 might be worth? I will try to post a picture of this item soon..

Hey Pennypusher,
She gave it to me as the real deal. I guess she had no idea it was fake; I had never seen a 1798 coin neither, so I also had no idea. I was just excited by seeing the date thinking I was going to be able to make a nice profit to buy me a nice car. :) guess can't always live in dream land, back to reality. hard work! long hours! = nice car! high gas prices + insurance = broke once again. She told me she got it from her "uncle." He probably knew it was fake. Since I didn't lose any money on this deal, no hard feelings. Now I have a nice cereal box Liberty dollar :) not a good one at that.. oh well :) thanks guys!

I wish the Chinese government would jump on the fake coin marker like they did to the school engineers after the earth quake.!

If a coin has CC on it as it's mint mark, it may be a (Chinese Counterfeit!). Just kidding, but they are in the business for real. In a book by Philip K. Dick "Man in the High Castle" there was a huge counterfeit ring selling counterfeit (what was it?) Lighters, Civil War memorabilia? I forgot. But no one wanted to question the fakes too much, because it was such a huge business for everyone, and they didn't want to collapse the market. Could Dick's prophetic vision be becoming a reality in the Coin World?

These lower quality ones are usually just silver plated. The better quality ones (which I admit, I bought an 1804 dollar) are made of 90% silver. This one is pretty low quality, and there are some very convincing ones out there. Mine even has the writing and designs on the edge. I assume yours does not.

Mike