PCGS COUNTERFEIT holder and coin on eBay.

Reported as well.

Good catch.....but still up there.... Cheers, RickO

Reported

Good its gone! Good work seeing it and reporting it guys!

I was going to post a link to coinworld for the article they wrote on this but their site appears to not be working at the moment. I see that PCGS wrote about this back in 2008 when there were only a few fakes out there.

Here is that article from 2018

https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/chinese-starter-kit-for-fake-pcgs-holders.html

There are counterfeit 1/10 maples w/ privy, also.

I spotted one and alerted the seller and had taken a screenshot of the wrong item.

The thickness on the privy was in grams, the COA number written on the back matched another one on ebay (that part blew my mind - 10680? 10609?), and although it appeared clearly and poorly 24k plated it was apparent from far away in a thumbnail that the maple was fake.

It said "Eagles" not "Maples" on the third line up from the bottom, also.

It looked like one of those fake chocolate coins. The color would have been right with the flash if it were a heavy details old cleaning that kinda retoned but was flashy. Dulled lifeless and unnecessarily shiny fields I guess is what I'm trying to say? They're also clearly not sharp strikes. The coins in these holders I've seen are all very sharp specimens, even in bad photos.

Anyway. Stay alert and vigilant.

Item #192941454741

I mean... unless there's some really obvious stuff I'm missing..

This one in particular doesn't say eagle from the third line up, my mistake. But it is also 10896.

I should be able to see that coin if I can read that text without my glasses.

We had a 1900 Silver Eagle walk in the store yesterday.

Not a typo O 1900. Clearly a very early prototype from a forward thinking mint employee........

Can you say Chinese Fake

The printing on the fake is also much poorer, e.g., compare the '$' between the two.

It is pretty bad out there when the listing title says NGC certified but the picture clearly shows it is not....

@metalmeister said:
Stop ,Search and destroy Shipping containers full of counterfeit goods from overseas.

That would be ideal.........but hardly anyone cares except collectors "in the know" and the individuals who are out of money by being fooled by them.

Meanwhile, the fakes are getting better and better as time goes on.

Pete

There are thousands of them.
They are everywhere & more shipping containers arriving daily.

The bar codes / numbers match the verification & some inserts look perfect.
My I-Phone app will take me to the PCGS page like it is suppose to.

The latest trick is a twist on "hocus-focus", it takes you to a TrueView but the seller doesn't provide a good enough slab shot to verify that it's the same coin.
(gold shield logo not very good yet so they use the ones that have TV but no shield)

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/412632?spm=a2g0o.store_home.pcShopHead_424226.0

They still can't beat a TrueView yet with a sharp seller photo of the coin in the slab.