The Worst Fake You Have Seen....

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ilmcoins
ilmcoins Posts: 525 ✭✭✭✭
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Is it worse than this one! The owner of it thought it would be worth a premium since the date is misprinted! Geez louise!!


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  • LanceNewmanOCC
    LanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Jinx86 said:
    I've had customers with similar and called me a liar and scam artist for not buying their rare family heirlooms.

    i feel it about time for a "why coin dealers drink" thread bump!

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  • SeattleSlammer
    SeattleSlammer Posts: 10,125 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    https://youtu.be/f5dMqHqC4pM

  • vplite99
    vplite99 Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Not fake, just comically altered.

    Vplite99
  • AUandAG
    AUandAG Posts: 25,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    3 inches?

    bob :):)

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  • ms70
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    @Jinx86 said:
    I've had customers with similar and called me a liar and scam artist for not buying their rare family heirlooms.

    You would think the mere fact that you didn't want their priceless pieces would have turned the light bulb on.

  • Luxor
    Luxor Posts: 595 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I thought this one was pretty bad as 'California proofs' go, and yet one or two individuals here who like to portray themselves as very knowledgeable felt otherwise.

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  • Hydrant
    Hydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That penny is funny.

  • CaptHenway
    CaptHenway Posts: 34,172 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    A 1914-D cent where the date was altered from a 1944 and the D was added... ABOVE the date!

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  • mannie gray
    mannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Hydrant said:
    That penny is funny.

    You're right and likely the coin was altered as a gag.

  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,094 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 29, 2020 2:45AM
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    I had a dealer try to sell me a 1928 peace dollar that was a 1923. Swore up and down it was a 28. Only catch was it had a Denver mint mark

  • Jimnight
    Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Very nice 1909 S VDB.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    :D Still laughing at that 1909 S VDB cent....Cheers, RickO

  • burfle23
    burfle23 Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'm with ricko, still chuckling over the 1909-S VDB B) !

    Going to change it up a bit and show the "worst" I have seen, a struck counterfeit 1797 large cent. Worst meaning the scariest...

  • SkyMan
    SkyMan Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 29, 2020 4:26PM
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    In Thailand I picked up a couple "silver dollars" to give to some coin collecting friends of mine in the US. The size and the heft was right, and the designs per se were pretty good, but they had Morgan obverses and Liberty Seated reverses. Needless to say, I paid less than a $1 for them.

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  • Jimnight
    Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Very nice 1909 S VDB.

  • batumi
    batumi Posts: 936 ✭✭✭✭
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    Worse than the 1875 'guaranteed to be authentic' Washington quarter I passed on at a flea market in North Africa!

  • abcde12345
    abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Jimnight said:
    Very nice 1909 S VDB.

    :#

  • CalifornianKing
    CalifornianKing Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭✭
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    @burfle23 said:
    I'm with ricko, still chuckling over the 1909-S VDB B) !

    Going to change it up a bit and show the "worst" I have seen, a struck counterfeit 1797 large cent. Worst meaning the scariest...

    That's scary, it looks fairly real at first glance. I don't know alot about old copper, but if you told me it was real I'd belive you. (if I wasn't buying it)

  • CalifornianKing
    CalifornianKing Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭✭
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    @Luxor said:
    I thought this one was pretty bad as 'California proofs' go, and yet one or two individuals here who like to portray themselves as very knowledgeable felt otherwise.

    Looks great.. except for when the cameo only is on part of the morgan....

  • thebeav
    thebeav Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Probably the worst I've ever seen is every Continental Dollar that gets posted here !

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  • Namvet69
    Namvet69 Posts: 9,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Wait! I can bid on that cent at which auction? Peace Roy

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  • jesbroken
    jesbroken Posts: 11,253 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 30, 2020 8:01PM
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    Here' s one I have had for 30+ years. It was still silver in color when I got it.
    Jim


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  • asheland
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    :D

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  • batumi
    batumi Posts: 936 ✭✭✭✭
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    @BillJones said:
    Here are a couple of candidates. I have not "seen them" but I did spot them on the Internet and added them to my "virtual counterfiet collection."

    A "1795 Dollar"


    A "not even close" obverse is paired with the wrong reverse.

    A 1904-CC Morgan Dollar


    This Chinese coin fake maker failed to note that the Carson City Mint closed 11 years earlier.

    The 'CC' on the 1904 slug likely means it was minted at the Chengdu China operation.

  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,094 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    what a bummer to cause there was free shipping

  • Onastone
    Onastone Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @ilmcoins said:
    Is it worse than this one! The owner of it thought it would be worth a premium since the date is misprinted! Geez louise!!

    After close scrutiny, I believe this cent is ruined mostly due to the huge mark over the ear on the obverse. That really draws your attention. Almost looks like it was held in a vise for unknown reasons. Then there's that awful strike through the C in Cent. Just dreadful. You'd be lucky to be able to spend it at face value. ;)

  • mosjcoin
    mosjcoin Posts: 116 ✭✭✭
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    Sorry I couldn't stop myself

  • Cougar1978
    Cougar1978 Posts: 10,067 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 4, 2020 10:14PM
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    The best ones a lot of them we don’t see. Many in collections not to resurface for awhile.

    Investor

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