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What Is The Most Faked Coin In The World?

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What is the most faked coin in The world?


Depends what you mean by most - most faked by quantity or most faked by the number of different people faking them.

If its the most faked by quantity then the current British pound coin must be up there. The mint admit to 30 million fakes in circulation and others claim its up to 60 million! These are from just a few sources though - A single man was convicted last year of making 14 million fakes over 7 years!

If its by the number of fakers then it is probably ancient Greek coins or American coins from the early 20th century - the Chinese seem to love these!

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or American coins from the early 20th century - the Chinese seem to love these!


Agreed.. lots of sand-cast key-date Morgans out there.

some good info and some images of some of the counterfeit Chinese dollars..
https://goccf.com/t/57606

I'll be adding to that thread soon - have some more on the way. Hopefully the photography will be better the second time around
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xshift thanks for the pics. Your fatman dollar looks and has the same characteristics as mine. Great info from all
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don't think this would be the most faked coin but there is definitely allot of them out there on the market, that would be the Trade dollars both US and British Trade dollars. I think I have seen more fakes of these types than I have seen real ones. They range from crude to very well made as well
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In the USA it would have to be the Morgan dollars #1, closely followed by the 1916D Mercury dime or the 1909S VDB Lincoln Cent.
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I vote for British 1 Pound coins, every time I pull a random 10 out of circulation (in Central London) I find at least one fake. When I was in Scotland or up in north, I only found one fake in almost a week, that makes North somehow safer.
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I was going to say the £1 coin as well... not as bad as London, but certainly worse than the northern part of Britain!
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