What Are These Please Help | Imitation British Trade Dollars

I was slightly off. It's a 'British Trade Dollar-Satu Ringgit. I'll try to post a link to one, but since I'm still a newbie, it might not let me. http://collections-adamalif.blogspo...it_9389.html

You should weigh them, correct weight is 26.9568g with 0.78 oz ASW so they are worth quite a bit more than $2 each.

You find them listed under "Great Britain" in the catalogues and on WorldCoinGallery, even though very few of them ever landed on British soil - they were essentially Asian coins, minted almost entirely in India for use primarily in China and Southeast Asia.

Genuine examples should sell above bullion value for most dates, but 1900 is a commonly faked date. $2 is the typical going rate for fake Chinese-made dollars.

Here's something interesting I found while surfing around... http://www.alibaba.com/product-free..._Silver.html

Pay close attention to his other items for sale.

What is sad is this info gleaned from his business profile. I wonder if that is where the ones I was eyeing came from.

Main Customers: USA
Total Annual Sales Volume: US$1 Million - US$2.5 Million
Export Percentage: 81% - 90%
Total Annual Purchase Volume: US$1 Million - US$2.5 Million

Tim,

I'm just a lowly newbie... But, night before last, there were a couple of ebay auctions up, where a real user's account was hijacked, and Peace dollars were offered at absurdly low prices. One of the lots was the set of Peace dollars that this guy is selling from his website. If other folks on here, who have better contacts in the right circles, see this information, maybe the Fed's can buy a coin or two, and knock this (I know enough about keeping this friendly to just say "bleep, bleep, bleepity, bleep, bleep" out of business. I'll leave it to your discretion, because you started this thread, but perhaps this topic should sort of re-start, so that everyone can be aware of this person. Perhaps some of the old timers can request samples of their work, so we at least can identify the work of a particular vendor.

I would say. looking at the rims, the engraving quality in the "key" design, and the letters, and the colour, that these are fakes, and that there is no silver in them. Do a ring test- the silver ring is different than the sound of the modern fakes.