Junk Counterfeits
CRHer700
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Are Chinese junk dollars commonly counterfeited? I assume that they are since they are Chinese, but I wanted to ask if there were any telltale signs of a fake before I buy one.
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Just don't buy one. They are prolific and some are very good. I'd stay away.
Hey thanks for that. I'm going to hold off for now.
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In my experience there are lots of them and there aren't general tells because they would otherwise get fixed.
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There are telltale signs of bad fakes. But, obviously, the better fakes don't have those.
My favourite "tell" is on the cheap fake sun-and-birds junk dollars, where the sun-rays on one side of the ship don't line up with the rays on the other side:
Bad junk: the sun-ray doesn't line up. This coin is of course "bad " in numerous other ways too.
Better junk: the sun ray does line up (but it might still be fake).
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Apparently I have been awarded one DPOTD.
Yea, but if the price is right it's still a nice coin for the grandkids
That is interesting, thanks for the tip.
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