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Well known fake Civil War dog tag listed on eBay
DCW
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This is a fake CSA identification disc well known to the collecting community. It is not stopping people on eBay from bidding it up to $200 with 2 hours left! An "estate find."
To the seller's credit (if you can give someone who sells fakes credit) he has listed it under reproductions. I wonder if people are even reading the description or if they are blindly bidding for this piece of "history?"
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/183973317487
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
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Is it a one-off well known fake ie are there multiple copies out there?
Multiple copies of this piece and several other similar pieces with different names, units, etc. -- all seen so far are C.S.A. and not Union.
13 bids and 4 separate bidders all wanted this piece of junk for over $200.
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I would think that a true 'CSA' tag, much like this, would be worth more like a thousand and a half, or two......
https://www.realorrepro.com/article/Fake-Civil-War-identification-discs
A good article on the subject
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
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At $217, it went for way cheaper than if it was real. I’m guessing at least the underbidders knew it was fake.
Wow 200 bucks for a fake dog tag listed in tje repo section
HAPPY COLLECTING
Agree. Nice article, this indicates real ones go for $5,000 to $12,000 and the fakes go for $200 to $1,000, so this is on the lower end
Also interesting that these appeared in the 1990s. Do we know who made them and have more recent ones been encountered?
Also, what are some examples of “legitimate replicas” as mentioned below?
I certainly hope the winner knows it is fake.... though likely does and has a market for it at a profit...Next sale will not be as a reproduction. Cheers, RickO
There has been, for a long time*, big money to be made in Civil War counterfeit artifacts. If I could lay all the "bullets fired at Gettysburg' sold on EBay end to end they'd stretch from L.A. to Harrisburg. Unfortunately people don't, or cannot, do the research needed before they buy.
*Decades if not soon after the war itself.
At $221 hammer a few must have wanted it really bad as a key chain fob?
Maybe Cheryl bought it for the keys of her new She Shed
@DCW Thank you for bringing this to the forum's attention and linking that great article. Useful education!