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Is This A Fake 1925 Penny?

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 Posted 11/20/2013  11:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FNQ to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here are 3 articles that cover market commentary, news examples and general insights into the trade:
http://www.sterlingcurrency.com.au/...se-dud-coins
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/15182799...ld-in-china/
http://coins.about.com/b/2008/04/02...ing-ring.htm
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 Posted 11/20/2013  3:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DVCollector to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The forgers are getting serious...they are making dies that closely (but not precisely) match the originals.
I'm not an expert on Aussie pre-decimals, but I immediately suspect any key/semi-key coin that has 'just struck' surfaces where the details look "off". And I see more and more all the time--I wonder if the hobby will become awash in fakes someday?

Here's a picture from the link above, showing fake dies of Canadian, British, US, and some older European coins. The forgers have taken this to a whole new level with die-struck fakes. From what I've seen, the dates are often the last detail added, where they often make obvious mechanical and stylistic errors.

Is-This-A-Fake-1925-Penny?
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11/20/2013 3:55 pm
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 Posted 11/20/2013  7:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jimjamtwo to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks, everyone, for the informative responses!

This article, in particular, told me nearly everything I wanted to know:

http://www.sterlingcurrency.com.au/...se-dud-coins
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11/20/2013 7:17 pm
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 Posted 11/22/2013  5:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jimjamtwo to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I wonder if it would be possible for those who own copies of a Chinese fake to post a hi-res scan? I'd be most interested, and I think it would be educational, to see what kind of surfaces are produced by the process described in the abovementioned article.
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 Posted 11/29/2013  12:08 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hodgie55 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I see this seller has red feedback for one coin and 5 others because the buyers bag got wet if only he realised the wet bag is not the problem but the fake coins but ebay has set feedback up now so you don't know what the buyers names are so you can't contact them which is a shame.
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 Posted 11/29/2013  12:35 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add oh my florin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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And it is a shame they have set it up like that but frankly those coins looks so fake it really isn't funny and I don't know why ebay puts up with it. Seriously if you took one of those coins to an auction house they would laugh you out of the building but ebay is like yep looks legit
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 Posted 11/29/2013  01:35 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add wwwww to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
From the feedback, 9***9 actually paid for it. :(
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