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Please refer to the scans below and let me knows of what you think later there   |
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 United States
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@TC, can you please post the weight? Thx.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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Singapore
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Why in the world would anyone want to fake that ?
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Australia
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 The coin is only worth AUD $0.18 or USD$0.12, it would not be worth faking it. Steve :) |
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United States
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It could be a prize if its fake. There are plenty of collectors with black book collections.
Having the most worthless fake known would be a real find. Worth a couple bucks as such.
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Australia
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In reality, 50 sen coins have been counterfeited together with 1 ringgit. 1 ringgit coin was actually demonetized and strangely enough was replaced by paper note. There was a big move to replace them with the newer high security coins.
My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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Having the most worthless fake known would be a real find. Not to hijack this thread to far, but I have multiple US and foreign coins that have face value of one cent (or less) but are fake. I think that the bar is pretty low. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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These circulation coin looks exactly fake to be honest with you
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I agree. Fake. The lettering on the denomination side is very poorly executed. The R and M have "tails" the S is not curved as it should be. Take a look at the real coin, and it is quite clear-cut. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1655.htmlEdited by tdziemia
11/08/2019 08:33 am
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United States
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It always makes me chuckle when someone says a coin would not be worth forging.
My uncle was a counterfeiter from roughly 1930 to 1965. He made coins for circulation. He operated in southeast Massachusetts and Rhode Island. One thing I learned from him is that there is no margin too small for a successful counterfeiter.
He made mostly silver coins and always used the correct amount of silver (or very close to it), because as tokens US silver coins contained less silver than their face value. He told me that he did not defraud anyone because he made coins from the same amount of metal as the government.
The logic may be flawed but he was a very successful counterfeiter. Never once arrested and no one knew what he was doing during his lifetime outside of a few family members like myself.
Making a coin worth 12 cents can be profitable as long as you spend less than 12 cents to make it and you do not get caught. A coin like the one in question contains only a couple cents worth of metal.
In places where labor costs are low it does not take a lot of incentive to turn to forgery if there are no alternatives.
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I really like swamperbob's comments.  They tie in really well with a book by Charles M. Larson - ' Numismatic Forgery', which clearly details how to make very deceiving forgeries. This book is endorsed by none other than Ken Bressett, a past president of the A.N.A. Such a book strongly helps a suspicious collector to to expose fake coins, by their method of manufacture. |
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