Fake Morgans? I Think So .

I don't know much about coin buying in Italy, except I've bought a few ancient coins from Italian auction houses. If you can watch Youtube there are numerous videos about fake coins. Just do a search on Youtube and you'll see videos showing fake Morgans, fake Peace, fake silver eagles, etc. If the coins you show were mine I'd return them for a refund if I could. I'd only buy from sellers who allow returns or sellers who test the coins for you before you buy. I sometimes see coins here in America at garage sales and estate sales. Some coins are real, some fake. My wife is Italian, her grandparents came to America in the 1920s from Sicily. She says if I ever cheat on her she will contact the mafia .

They have that moulded look to them. The lettering and details aren't sharp, and as one poster said they look balloonish.

One dealer around where I live kept several in his case. When you picked one up it felt light, as if it were made of aluminum. It wasn't, but if you handle real dollars much you can feel the relative lightness of a fake.

Most Chinese made dollar counterfeits are made from brass, plated with a thin layer of silver. Brass has a similar density to silver, and is cheap.