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Where can you get fakes?

tneigtneig Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭
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That is without buying them as real...

I'd like to have a few to display with a sampling of real PM/coins, ASEs, morgans, etc. I saw a guy at the flea market with a few and a magnet so folks could play, but he wasn't selling the couple he had.

ps
When I brought my VF/AU Peace dollars in to the local B+M to check, he was happy to use his sizing and balancing test set. You push the coin through a slot and it checks the diameter and thickness, then you put the coin on one end and it balances correctly. I bought some AGEs in return.
COA

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,115 ✭✭✭✭✭
    eBay?
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  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I bet if you put a WTB in the coin BST somebody here would probably sell you some. There's lots of folks here with them.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,111 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>eBay? >>



    Also, the local flea market.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • streeterstreeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I bought my fake 14-d from a shop 30 years ago. The shop operator bought the roll and paid real money.

    Little convenience stores regularly get them especially if the operator is a greedy uninformed coin collector who is thinking he is getting a rip.

    Flea markets are the best. Ebay is second but they are about a little less than the real deal. Sort of like buying from a fence at 75% on the dollar. Good deal for the fence, bad deal for you.
    Have a nice day
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yup, ebay or the flea-market !!!
    Timbuk3
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,111 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Yup, ebay or the flea-market !!! >>



    Unfortunately, the sellers of fake coins usually price them like they are real.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • jfoot13jfoot13 Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭
    I think I have a single row box in one of the closets with about 100 different dollar sized counterfeits mostly world but US mixed in. I'll sell it to you as a lot for $2.00 each These are all counterfiets and none are marked as such, about a year or so ago I was saving them as a reference but they started taking on a life of there own and in the closet they went
    If you can't swim you better stay in the boat.......
  • piecesofmepiecesofme Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭
    Unfortunately, the sellers of fake coins usually price them like they are real.

    Or for more. I've seen advertised fakes go for more than the coin would've if it was real!
    To forgive is to free a prisoner, and to discover that prisoner was you.
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,303 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>eBay? >>

    lots to image
  • tneigtneig Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭
    Special thanks to Twinturbo for helping me out.

    I would have been taken early-on with some of the fakes that are out there. Been very lucky with the fast pace I've been buying.

    Its good to have a comparison piece. Now I carry a magnet, small scale, do the ding test, etc. Also a dropper of coin-dip is a bit safer
    than acid.

    Yeah, but the way. That term Art Bar is used too vaguely and frequently and a lot of times to deceive.

    COA
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,303 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i see the ones at flea markets selling harshly cleaned coin as well for full price and say theres nothing wrong with it. go figure
  • tneigtneig Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭


    << <i>i see the ones at flea markets selling harshly cleaned coin as well for full price and say theres nothing wrong with it. go figure >>



    If its for a base value coin, and you want something a little nicer to view than an old crusty example, thats cool with me if its obvious. But once they start to get tricky with a higher value coin with intent to deceive, then that's not good. Once I realized the big rule about cleaning a coin is a bunch of "xxxx" in general, then I lost interest.

    For me, if I have a strip of 10 spoted Engelhard bars in the original cellophane, I leave it that way. If its a single spotted bar, I'll clean it. I cleaned an old beatup tarnished ASE and thats the one my friends notice.

    I don't think I've seen a fake ASE yet, only misrepresented ones.

    COA
  • 57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
    from a good plastic surgeon.

    not for me of course.
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