Possible $20 Omega Counterfeit?

sellitstore

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/95145343_1907-20-gold-coin-w-14k-bezel

AUandAG

Real removed, fake inserted. Two prongs broken off on reverse.

bob

pursuitofliberty

It's counterfeit, but that's no Omega

sellitstore

I've seen plenty of lightly circulated High Reliefs but few in jewelry. I figured that if it was an Omega, someone here would want it anyway. Even a beat up genuine jewelry piece is worth significantly more than melt but not this one as a non-Omega fake. Not my thing, but I found it interesting, anyway.

sellitstore

@pursuitofliberty said:
It's counterfeit, but that's no Omega

I don't know. I'm seeing something in that claw.

Why do you think it's not an Omega? I can't tell from this photo.

ReadyFireAim

Looks cast because of all the little voids. (pockmarks)
The Omega was a very high quality struck coin.

MFeld

@ReadyFireAim said:
Looks cast because of all the little voids. (pockmarks)
The Omega was a very high quality struck coin.

In addition to that, look at how unevenly weak the eagle’s neck and lower tail feathers are.

sellitstore

The rough surfaces look more like jewelry wear to me, but hard to tell. They claim it tested 90% gold. Same as the Mexican 50 Pesos that our alleged counterfeiter is supposed to have used, according to a very popular thread from a couple of years ago.

Didn't sell too far above melt ($2688 vs about $2100 melt), if you consider the mount and BP, but it's one ugly coin (condition-wise) or imitation thereof. It's no longer the attractive piece of jewelry that it once was and is near the end of it's useful life, even as a jewelry piece.

thebeav

Melt is more like 1787 right now........

sellitstore

@thebeav said:
Melt is more like 1787 right now........

I was including the mount and guessed at weight/value plus the coin.

ricko

Just judging from the pictures, I would pass... worn, if authentic, and I am not sure it is...Cheers, RickO

oih82w8

That is not an attractive mount, rather crude, I could agree with the aforementioned on the "coin".