Anyone For Some Fakes

ya its a shame about whats out there on the market nowadays

Sad thing is that that antique finish will fool a great deal of people who are looking for "old" coins.

Aren't there deterrent laws that prohibit people from importing fakes? Where's the secret service in all this?

These companies are not US-based. AliExpress is a division of Alibaba, a well-known fakemaker's sales website based in mainland China. So they're free to make, sell and export fake US coins as much as they want, since they're not breaking Chinese law.

It is, of course, illegal (under American law) to import them into America unless they are stamped "COPY". And rest assured, these won't be unless the buyer specifically requests it. But the Secret Service isn't randomly opening everybody's overseas mail, just on the off chance that they might be importing fake coins. They can only act on definite tip-offs.

Illegal to import into the US since they don't have COPY stamped on them. The Chinese fakers are ruining our hobby with this garbage.

I'm pretty sure the Secret Service only cares about counterfeit American legal tender coins. Pandas are Chinese. Protecting the integrity of the American financial system is in their charter; protecting the integrity of the Chinese coinage system is not. Fake foreign coins are basically "goods" under US law, so they fall under the jurisdiction of other branches of law enforcement. Try one of those helpful-sounding government websites like stopfakes.gov.