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This would be funny if it weren't such a scam.
Aside from the crudeness of the design, there some serious date problems. In 1870 the Japanese minted their first silver yen, which did not have the famous dragon design. This group includes "coins" minted in 1868, 1869 and 1870 with the design adopted in 1871. The series ends with two coins resembling (barely) Trade Dollars, but made with the one yen reverse.
He says his 37mm measurement of coins which would be 38.6mm if genuine is "approximate", so that should cover his
This guy has thousands of positive feebacks and "only" 94 negative/neutral. Does anyone think a report to eBay's new Community Coin Watch will have any effect?
<==hereThis would be funny if it weren't such a scam.
Aside from the crudeness of the design, there some serious date problems. In 1870 the Japanese minted their first silver yen, which did not have the famous dragon design. This group includes "coins" minted in 1868, 1869 and 1870 with the design adopted in 1871. The series ends with two coins resembling (barely) Trade Dollars, but made with the one yen reverse.
He says his 37mm measurement of coins which would be 38.6mm if genuine is "approximate", so that should cover his
This guy has thousands of positive feebacks and "only" 94 negative/neutral. Does anyone think a report to eBay's new Community Coin Watch will have any effect?
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<< <i>I came across a dealer in Seoul about two weeks ago that has a roll of 200 of these fakes. >>
<< <i>Does anyone think a report to eBay's new Community Coin Watch will have any effect? >>
It wouldn't hurt to try. I doubt there's any other area of Darkside numismatics which has a higher percent of fakes offered on eBay. Maybe if they could clean that up, it would make the whole eBay experience more enjoyable for everybody.
... not that I'm holding my breath for eBay to act.
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It's definitely funny money, all the coins show evidence of being made using the casting method, if you check the 6th photo, you can see the little pits on the surface formed by little bubbles breaking through before the metal hardened.
The better fakes coming out of China recently which I saw at the Hong Kong show are made using a metal dye and stamped on a silver coloured planchet. Its so good that it can fool a less experienced collector, but the weight is off by .20-0.30 gms at least and the reverse Chinese character for one Yen is slighlty smaller than the original.