Interesting Counterfeits

@garys64wildcat - Aye they still do require that, but the requirement is only if you're the (domestic) manufacturer or the importer.

The Chinese manufacturers won't do it... and the kinds of folks who import them in bulk are the same kinds of folks who tend to ignore the law.

IMHO, the Bulgarian counterfeiters seem better at it than do the Chinese. Then too, our stateside Omega guy was/is a "great" counterfeiter; not to mention the chap who pumped out those micro-O Morgans that PCGS used to slab! Crime disregards borders and ethnic groups, it seems ...

I wouldn't waste my money on them. You can get just about any fake coin you want from china for under $2.

Enough that if the Secret Service were to show up... well... :-)

But joking aside, I have few hundred counterfeit varieties and multiple specimens of about a quarter of those varieties. They range from contemporary counterfeits (Micro-O Morgans, Henning Nickels, etc.) to moderns pulled from circulation (brass Sacagaweas, base metal "silver" dollars) and pieces aimed at fooling collectors (fake PCGS slabs, altered coins, fantasy pieces), too.

Most of them I bought from jewelers and cash for gold shops that got snookered by unscrupulous individuals, but a growing number are donations that folks want cataloged for posterity, and don't want re-entering circulation.