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I walked into this junk shop the other day...

sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
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and asked if they had any cash coins. Indeed they did. The guy offered me a whole string of them for the equivalent of 45 bucks. I pawed through them and saw a bunch of Chinese stuff ranging from the Wang Mang interregnum to the early Qing. I considered it for a moment until it occurred to me that every coin on the string had the exact same patina.



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  • PhilipPhilip Posts: 847
    Maybe they were stored together over the centuries? image

    I always thought faking a coin worth less than at least a couple of hundred bucks is a stupid thing to do.
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  • earlwbollingerearlwbollinger Posts: 1,304
    Well since they originally cast these coins, making cast fakes would be real easy then.
    I guess there must be some sort of profit in it else they wouldn't be making them by the millions.

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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭


    << <i>I always thought faking a coin worth less than at least a couple of hundred bucks is a stupid thing to do. >>


    Most if not all of the fakes are coming from China and remember in China a days labor can still be had for a couple dollars. In the day you laborer can turn out probably several hundred fakes. Even if they are one dollar fakes your labor cost is only 1%. Then consider this, which is more likely to be successfully passed without close scrutiny a $10 coin or a $200 coin? Also as the "value" of the fake increases so does both the scrutiny increases and the collector pool of potential buyers decreases.
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