Pillar Dollars To Stay Away From

I recall reading in an expose' of the Chinese counterfeit coin industry that one of the aspects at which they're in general quite expert (from long experience) is "aging" their wares so that they appear to be artifacts and not newly manufactured. As in any field, there are top notch practitioners, artists of a sort as you say, and quick buck pretenders - the examples I've linked to in this case appear to be products of the former sort of operator, and again as I've already said, thus particularly insidious.

When I was still with ebay we used to compare pictures to link names of sellers that we suspected of being part of the same group for other reasons. I once had a group of 12 sellers all posting the identical pictures at the same time. Since the rules used to require an actual picture of the item being sold we could suspend and then terminate all the IDs for breach of the rules. This is typical of the Chinese ring that operates out of Peking associated with AliBaba.