Have you ever, knowingly, bought a fake coin?
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I was watching this "1944-P" Jefferson and threw a last second bid on it and won. When i first saw it, I had my suspicions about the OBV of Jefferson's hair being the wrong era in design. I compared it to some other 44-P's and the hair is too well defined. The legend lettering font looks off as well. And it is not silver. I am pretty sure there are other tale-tell signs. It will fit right in with rest of my fake 7070 Type Set.
Have you ever, knowingly, bought a fake coin?
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I own approximately 1000 fake coins, all of which I knowingly purchased as such. They comprise my reference collection of fakes, counterfeits and replicas.
Official PCGS account of:
www.TallahasseeCoinClub.com
Latin American Collection
Don't know if this counts. Years ago I bought a 16-D Mercury that has a small " replica " stamped on the reverse. My album looked bad that one glaring empty spot. The rest of the album is f - xf. Can't afford a 16-D in that grade. Album looks great now.
I bought a fake 1909-S VDB Penny because, at least for a long while, i am NEVER getting the dough for that 😭
I pay a dollar for the fakes that the liquor store and the tobacco shop get, usually some kind of dollar-size piece.
even has a counterstamp
This is way bogus, the seller WAS going business to business selling and was put out of the same
Just bought it at FUN last month. 90% silver too!
chopmarkedtradedollars.com
I picked this up many years ago Just to see how good it was and how it was done.
Looks like a wax casting in aluminum gold electro plated.
I have a few contemporary counterfeit walking liberty halves, acquired because they are interesting. A fair number of early dates exist, struck in pot metal from moderately worn original pieces. I assume some enterprising individuals were looking for a cash source during the Great Depression.
When I was collecting Lincoln's as a teenager I purchased a raw 14-D from a LCS that was sold as a genuine example. Many decades later when I submitted to PCGS it came back as a fake with an added mintmark. I gave it to another board member for his reference collection of fakes.
Top 10 Cal Fractional Type Set
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I've been collecting contemporary counterfeits for several years, trying to focus on handmade dies versus casts. The sillier and less passable the execution, the better.
Sean Reynolds
"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
I want to get contemporary counterfeits that feature misspelled words. I have seen a dime and two bust half varieties that have the legend spelled incorrectly.
In the meantime, I have this love token on a counterfeit, ex @habaraca. One of my faves.
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you" Matthew 6:33. Young fellow suffering from Bust Half fever.
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JRCS #1606
Yes ... I have had a couple of fake Trade Dollars, a fake 09-S VDB, a contemporary cast CBH, a fake pole cap cent, a fake Fugio, and a fake New Jersey copper. And a few of those fake Chinese trade dollars, "7 mace and 2 candareens" or whatever it is they say. That's all I remember. Most of them have moved on to other collections. It's sort of terrible that they exist at all, but they are admittedly interesting.
No. Just a circ find of a lead 1967 quarter and a 1943 copper coated steel cent.
I’ve knowingly bought non-genuine many times. Usually, it’s to just get them out of circulation. Sometimes I save them up and send them to the ANA for use in their classes. Other times, I bend them over in my vise and throw them out or drop them in my melt bucket if silver or gold.
What date ranges are you considering contemporary?
I once had a "193Z-D" quarter (baaaaaaad alteration from a 1937-D) that was thrown in with a batch of junk silver
Yes
DPOTD-3
'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'
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Don
I believe that "contemporary" is a relative term based on the coin itself, referring to the time period when that coin was in circulation.
A counterfeit Morgan silver dollar from the era when that coin circulated is "contemporary" while a Chinese counterfeit Morgan made yesterday is not not (and never will be).
A counterfeit Sacagawea made anytime in the last 25 years would be considered to be a contemporary counterfeit.
Okay, got it. Thanks!
I have purchased many and so far have never been asked to return any. Lol
Jim
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
I'd like to have an Omega Saint.
Missed the opportunity years ago and regret it.
My Saint Set
Heard the tpg's got restraining orders on this one the obverse
(Respectinly here to ja crispies)
Here’s mine…….
Yes.
My Collection of Old Holders
Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
yws, the following
I have a few - couldn't afford the real deal.
I like this design of the Old Spanish Trail Half. A genuine is on my list.
I have knowingly bought a counterfeit twice.
The first time was this 1837 Half dollar. It has a lettered edge. Of course the real thing has a reeded edge. it was like the counterfeits shown in Don Taxay's "Counterfeit and Mistruck" book from many years ago. I paid $15.
The other was a Henning Nickel. I paid $1 for it, but it was many years ago.
I didn't buy it. I found it, then had it graded.
No.
Yes. A local dealer friend had an "ancient Jewish coin" he suspected was fake; I bought it for a very low price knowing full well it definitely was fake. The thing still smelled of the plasticine they'd used to make the casting mould.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice.
Yes. Continental Dollar
and mine
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Got this cream puff last year (free too)
I was seven or eight years old, when I bought a training coin, like this one.
Then I lost it, or maybe spent it.
What ?
I have, guilty!
I just picked up a Henning myself.
With the hole in R and the die crack.
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I wanted one of these in my personal collection for quite a while. I finally got one last year.