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Malaysia
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Hi! I have several coins that I want to be identified and appraised. First up is this coin. Anyone has any ideas?    Identified - moved to World Coins forum - Sap |
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Croatia (Locally: Hrvatska)
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 Malaysia
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I really like the second, "fantasy coin"  "United Maxxico America" is very imaginative. |
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Malaysia
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Haha! I thought it was kind of weird too the first time I saw it. Here's another coin:   Another fantasy coin I suppose? Don't know how I ended up with these junks.  Edited by terra1174
08/13/2011 9:17 pm
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 Australia
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Your third coin is not a "fantasy", it's a "replica" of an early American dollar. Still not a genuine coin, though. We've seen the "Maxxico" fantasy coin here before, such as in this very very old thread. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Malaysia
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Australia
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Yep, all replicas / fantasies, I'm afraid.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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United States
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The fantasy from United Maxxico America was actually used as the subject of an April fool's day issue of the Numismatist a few years ago. There are two primary varieties - this type is the more common. There is a slightly better execution with a far more realistic bird which I have seen only one time.
It is actually a conflation of design including a Cuban influence. The 1953 Cuban Peso KM 29 uses a rising sun and ray motif. The Mexican Pesos use a Liberty Cap surrounded by rays.
Interesting item but really worth only a few cents as a curio.
All of the coins in this post appear to be from the Chinese market place and none is of any real value. They are NOT SILVER. I typically pay $1 each for junk counterfeits to retire them permanently.
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New Member
United Arab Emirates
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HHH..some of them are pretty funny forgeries! they don't even closely resemble the original one!
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New Member
United Arab Emirates
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But I would like to add that the second picture in the first post is pretty common to most chinese coins.
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Posted 08/13/2011 1:07 pm
