Reproduction Coins "Copy"

Why not. There are people who collect them since the originals are way too expensive, usually over several thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars.

I have a few of them. Here's a CSA cent from the Royal Oak Mint.

http://www.coincommunity.org/galler...hp?pos=-1226

http://www.coincommunity.org/galler...hp?pos=-1226

I used to have a collection of counterfeit coins but gave them all away. Just to old to have to many things laying around. As to filling a slot in an Album, I've been trying for years to get people to send letters or email complaints to companies like Whitman and Dansco to stop putting in slots in Albums for coins that even if you had one you would never put it in an Album. Example is the 1913 Liverty Head Nickel. Same goes for error coins such as the 1922 Plain Lincold Cent or the 55DD Lincoln. Error coins should be in a separate place, not in an Album type collection.

I would never buy a reproduction of any coin knowingly, like what was said before I would rather have the hole, or at best if I didn't like the hole I would turn another common date backwards in the "pricey" hole to show the Reverse of the coin with the Obverse of the correct dated coins. A copy is just not an option for my collection and the thing that was said that people collect them, I sure don't know anyone who does and if they do its only because they don't know much about coins and are just getting started maybe

I agree with Bruce 100%!

I will probably buy repros for the flowing hair type in my half dollar type set...I really just want to show what the design looked like, without spending the $4000 to have a poor looking authentic coin. I think that for my purposes it will do nicely.

A decent example of a draped bust half is going to be expensive enough!

I think that EXACT SIZE replicas of type coins which are not affordable are good, provided that they are realistic looking and not brilliant proof-like coins. Those produced by the National Collectors Mint are too shiny and oversized (and the telephone representatives are very pushy, trying to sell real coins to people unfamiliar with nmumismatics at three or four times their value). There are very good, exact-size replicas for sale on ebay. Look up the Royal Oaks Mint, and I believe a seller on ebay deals exclusively in replkicas [ warrenscoins ? ]. I would not buy a replica just to "fill a hole" --- certainly no one in his right mind would put an actual 1856 Flying Eagle into a Whitman album. I keep my replicas of the 1793 chain cent, 1794 dollar, and 1795 half eagle separate from my collection of actual coins. I believe that some examnples of counterfeit coins, different from replicas, make interesting study pieces. I have a contemporary counterfeit of an 1806 half dollar and a pre-Hobby Act nicely worn and toned replica of a confederate half dollar which may have been a cast souvenir piece for the centennial of the Civil War.