The Justinian follis is one I've seen numerous times before;
this thread has one, with links to several more on the FORVM fake database.
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...and I think that they should be illegal, unless they have "fake/copy" stamped somewhere on them, right? ... is it just me?
They already are illegal, in America. Under the Hobby Protection Act, importing and/or selling fake coins that aren't clearly marked COPY is against the law. Anyone in America ordering that junk off AliBaba is breaking the law.
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Scary good fakeries - I'm with CA - The only safe place to buy is below the $50 range. Id go as far as to say the sub $20 range.
"That coin is too cheap to be genuine" is always a good attitude.
"That coin is too cheap to be worth counterfeiting" is
not a good attitude. The whole point of bobbyhelmet's post is that they're already counterfeiting sub-$20 items.
Your best defence is to only ever buy from trusted sellers, that have been in the business for years, that know how to spot all but the best-quality fakes, and will happily refund your money if a coin you buy off them turns out later to be a fake, even years or decades later.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
Posted 12/17/2012 5:37 pm
No better advice than this.
