What Is It With Contemporary 3 Cent Silvers On Ebay Last Week?

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BStrauss3 Pillar of the Community United States 4591 Posts	Posted 07/17/2017 11:32 am Different sellers, same fairly common contemporary counterfeit (the reverse is a dead give away, and also the mis-aligned lines of the star outline and the hook from the star into the date) http://www.ebay.com/itm/372005135791 http://www.ebay.com/itm/362031135613 It was obviously a well used counterfeit die, I own a copy from the end of it's life when it shattered... -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ Report this Post to the Staff

moxking Rest in Peace United States 17900 Posts	Posted 07/17/2017 2:59 pm It's unfortunate that trimes are so abundant as counterfeit, both contemporary and more recent. Most of them can be spotted. I appreciate that you've taken the time to educate us on these. Report this Post to the Staff
BStrauss3 Pillar of the Community United States 4591 Posts	Posted 07/17/2017 3:22 pm If you know your US history there was a little bit of a kerfuffle that occurred between 1861 and 1865. As often happened in Wartime precious metal currency disappeared, followed by less valuable coins like that trime. And then even the copper coin disappeared. At the end of the war they introduced a new 3 cent copper nickel so the Three Cent Silver was an attractive coin for counterfeiters. It was vaguely remembered but it really hadn't been used/seen in several years. It was typically counterfeited out of German silver so it was cheap to make. Small and low value so people rarely looked at it very closely. -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 07/17/2017 3:39 pm I would think it would be counterproductive to counterfeit a seldom seen coin design. It would be a curiosity to people and they would examine in more closely. I would think a contemporary counterfeit would best be done on a design that everyone saw all the time so it warranted barely a glance. The early years of the war would seem to me to be the time for the production of circulating trimes. Report this Post to the Staff
BStrauss3 Pillar of the Community United States 4591 Posts	Posted 07/19/2017 4:48 pm I think it was true that contemporary counterfeit 3cs passed long into the twilight of the coin. Randomly, the NNP has "Dye's Government Counterfeit Detector" from January 1881, https://www.archive.org/stream/dyes.../40/mode/1up -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ Report this Post to the Staff
BStrauss3 Pillar of the Community United States 4591 Posts	Posted 07/19/2017 4:49 pm Anyway, the new (to me) one: 0.65g -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ Report this Post to the Staff
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