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  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,351 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Larry

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a 1902 CC Morgan counterfeit.... have posted it before with the PUP's..... Cheers, RickO

  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 6,052 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Pocketpiececommemoratives

    Lafayette Grading Set
  • AmazonXAmazonX Posts: 680 ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 5, 2017 11:25AM

    You just opened Pandora's box.

    1839 $5 gold fantasy date stuck in copper

  • AmazonXAmazonX Posts: 680 ✭✭✭✭

    Pandora's Box part 2

    1793 large cent is an electrotype.

  • AmazonXAmazonX Posts: 680 ✭✭✭✭

    Pandora's Box Part 3








  • AmazonXAmazonX Posts: 680 ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 5, 2017 11:41AM

    Pandora's Box Part 4


    1823 Large Cent Restrike (kinda counts, struck from mint dies though)




    1835 $5 gold

    More parts to come later...

  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've been looking at contemporary counterfeits but haven't picked one up yet.

    I bid on an 1861 CSA half a while back but it turned out to be on from much later.

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,461 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 5, 2017 5:56PM









    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • howardshowards Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭

    @AmazonX: Nice shield nickel counterfeits. I do not have the two cancelled 1868's documented in SNV. Would you be willing to help get them included?

    Here is perhaps my nicest contemporary counterfeit shield nickel:

    Howard
    http://www.shieldnickels.net
  • AmazonXAmazonX Posts: 680 ✭✭✭✭

    @howards Very nice. I wish to own a counterfeit that has some luster to it.

    Yup, I will be sending those to you. I already re shot them(in there photos, the left side of the image is out of focus). I retook the '69 but I wasn't too happy with them so I ordered some lightening and will retake them again.

  • howardshowards Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭
    edited August 5, 2017 10:32PM

    @AmazonX said:
    @howards Very nice. I wish to own a counterfeit that has some luster to it.

    Yup, I will be sending those to you. I already re shot them(in there photos, the left side of the image is out of focus). I retook the '69 but I wasn't too happy with them so I ordered some lightening and will retake them again.

    Most contemporary counterfeits are pretty scudsy. I was very happy to get that 1874.

    Thank you very much for sending me photos!

    BTW, I should have included a closeup of the date of the 1874. The 7 is over... something? Since the date is hand-carved, who knows what the counterfeiter was thinking!

    Howard
    http://www.shieldnickels.net
  • AmazonXAmazonX Posts: 680 ✭✭✭✭

    @howards that 7 is...interesting. Maybe they were trying to do an 8?

  • AmazonXAmazonX Posts: 680 ✭✭✭✭

    Pandora's Box Part 5








  • AmazonXAmazonX Posts: 680 ✭✭✭✭

    Pandora's Box Part 6








  • HoledandCreativeHoledandCreative Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow!

  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,461 ✭✭✭✭✭


    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • USMarine6USMarine6 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sometimes the third side of the coin tells the story.

  • metalmeistermetalmeister Posts: 4,596 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some amazing counterfeits here.

    email: ccacollectibles@yahoo.com

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  • AmazonXAmazonX Posts: 680 ✭✭✭✭

    Pandora's Box 7 (hope you guys aren't getting sick of them):






  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    neat stuff

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,759 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @howards said:
    @AmazonX: Nice shield nickel counterfeits. I do not have the two cancelled 1868's documented in SNV. Would you be willing to help get them included?

    Here is perhaps my nicest contemporary counterfeit shield nickel:

    You know that would have passed in circulation!

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • YQQYQQ Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭✭✭

    speechless... in a way. Have seen all sort of Counterfeits of Canadian coins. Most from the PRoC.
    All these above are, for the untrained eye, probably real.
    If anyone posts more, would it be possible to note the CF markers so us "dark sides" can also recognize these?
    thanks

    Question:
    what does US currency law say about counterfeit US money?
    In Canada even possession is illegal and is a criminal offense. Even items marked copy or similar is considered a counterfeit item., as the action of producing it came before the Copy stamp was applied.

    Today is the first day of the rest of my life
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,835 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The crook who copied this "1837 half dollar" when to the trouble of putting a lettered edge on it. Of course in 1837 the half dollars had a reeded edge on them.


    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,704 ✭✭✭✭✭

    LDS

    VLDS

    Likely the same die pair as AmazonX's

    -----Burton
    ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,406 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Only documented "magic date" contemporary counterfeit I can find

    Latin American Collection

  • MilkmanDanMilkmanDan Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lead composition, cast from a genuine coin.

  • duck620duck620 Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭✭

    1916-S(OBV) WALKER



  • AmazonXAmazonX Posts: 680 ✭✭✭✭

    Pandora's Box Part 8

    Some odds and ends(tokens and stuff)






    (Crack is on the holder)

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