Counterfeit Question For Anyone

Stampvirgin




Don't mess with the SS.

Now for the rest of the story.

Several months ago, I purchased a bag ($1,000) of Ikes.

It was full of weird Ikes. Why way out of the normal, for what I was used to seeing.

Soooooooooo ... being the good American citizen I am, I called the SS.

I got a newbie. He told me he really did not know too much about Eisenhowers ... but he agreed to look at my coins anyway TOMORROW. We agreed on the date, and hung up.

Then I called him back and ask would he bring his scales?
His reaction was a little crisp. <=======

The wag never came ... I am still waiting for his to ring my door bell.

There was a lot more going on with this bag that the funny stuff. Save that for another post.

How about pictures of some of the Ike dollars you think are fake?

You go on and on about how you think they are fake yet have provided no photos for evaluation. Have you weighed them against genuine coins?

Frankly I think it is highly unlikely that a bank would have 1,000 fake dollar coins in one bag waiting to unload them on a person.

-MV

You'd be surprised to learn that there are plenty of fake Ikes out there. There's a pic of a fake of a rare variety aimed at collectors here in the Ike thread. The Chinese also make more generic fakes as part of their broad suite of fake American dollars and dollar-like objects; you can see one here in this old thread. Fake Ikes work precisely because of the attitude often expressed, "nobody would bother faking an Ike". But it only costs them a few cents to make a fake Ike, so if they sell it for a few dollars they've got their profit. Indeed, they probably help add legitimacy to their other fake coins: "well, I can't tell if the rest of the coins in this album are fake, but that Ike must be real, so maybe the rest of the coins just might be real, too". But someone with contacts with the fakemasters in China could probably order an entire shipping container of fake Ikes, if they wanted to.

So while I obviously can't verify Domain555's particular claims, I see it as an all too probable scenario: someone brings in a bag or box of fake Ikes, freshly imported from China, and deposits them; the bank teller, unfamiliar with what Ikes are supposed to look like, accepts them at face; they go in the vault and are given out again in good faith to the next oddball coin collector that asks for them.

I thought you had "fake" ikes...we would like to see pictures of them.

To be fraud, intent must be proven. Simply selling a fake does not constitute fraud.

Jayman......