Reality Check For Silver Morgans From Thailand

Be careful with this stuff.

First, I don't see any Morgan dollars in that photo. But I do see some of those Chinese Fat Man Dollars.

Here's an example of (I assume) a genuine one:
http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/ws/eBayISAPI...200310212270

I actually own several counterfeit Chinese coins that I bought at a flea market in Amsterdam. I did so knowing that I was taking a risk but I wanted to analyze these things and learn more about counterfeits.

Here's what I learned:

--Almost all of them are light (approx 20-25 grams)
--Almost all of them are magentic

We can't be an expert on every coin out there but you can at least learn the correct weight for a coin and take a cheap magnet with you when you go shopping.

Good luck.

Where in Thailand? If in BKK, you can pretty much figure anything at the weekend Chatuchak market is fake. Hold a real one in one hand and the coin in question in the other hand. You'll notice the difference in weight. Rust on the coin is another dead giveaway.

There may be a couple of reputable coin dealers in BKK. If you find any, could you post their locations here for those of us who visit Thailand?

to CCF

These coins are all over the flea markets of Malaysia, Thailand, Hong kong, Vietnam etc. These are not modern fake but old fake coins, which does not mean contemporary counterfeit.