Just for fun: Let's see your WORSE fake/counterfeit/bogus "coins"!
braddick
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Let's see your worse counterfeits!
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Not counterfeit but a silver round with an attempt of copying a Morgan...I actually thought it wasn't half bad but I recall some people thinking it was fairly ugly (it's still 1 oz of silver though).
Would this CGI qualify 😉
Mr_Spud
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do we have to own it? i have some doozies deep in the archives, if they qualify.
No!
You don't have to actually own it.
peacockcoins
This is my worst. I think it's cast.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
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Nice!
peacockcoins
Here's a couple that I own. Bought as counterfeits.
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i'm still looking for the REALLY bad stuff
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any of you remember these things floating around years ago?
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I have my fakes in my 7070 album for show and tell.
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Here's a couple "Goldilocks" fakes
Pete
Another.
Jim
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
MS 612+? Is this on the new 700 point scale?
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i think it may be a metric thing?
kinda reminds ya of that scene in pulp fiction when vincent is explaining to jules about the 1/4 pounder sandwich overseas, where, they have, no idea, what the heck a quarter pounder is!
No pictures, but while at ANACS I saw a 1914-D cent where the date was altered from a 1944, and THEN the mint mark was added, ABOVE THE DATE!
Lafayette Grading Set
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sheesh. counterfeit capped halves were holed almost as much as seated dimes. that is SOOOO odd. are there an enormous amount of holed authentic halves to help make sense of it?
well, i regret to inform that the deplorable quality part of my archives did not survive. there was some absolutely idiotic stuff imaged too. it was like the counterfeiters only got to see the images once or twice and then just spent the next 20-30 years doing it from memory, very badly.
not sure i can come up with much else that makes much sense w/o calling them mentally handicapped. THANKFULLY. it is hard enough these days now.
One other.
Jim
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
Bought raw in the 1980's. Submitted couple years ago. Placed in my own slab.
peacockcoins
Sean Reynolds
"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
Not mine...I just shot it. A pretty desirable contemporary counterfeit, I would guess.
Lance.
Not mine, from a recent auction:
1877 quarter dollar, no motto, AMER
1833 half dollar, seated liberty, with arrows
Ed. S.
(EJS)
Fake Gutter. RGDS!
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
BOOMIN!™
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I wanna see that!!!
This is actually my favorite in my collection, I wouldn't really call it bad as it obviously fooled a lot of people over the years:
Not the worst, but definitely bad:
Poorly made, but these last 2 definitely fooled people over many years as well:
I got this one recently.
Have had my tryst with quite a few from eBay.
I knew the Oregon trail was fake but picked it up very cheap nevertheless, to teach my kid.
The following was also a clear fake which I decided to return back later because of getting much better looking copies.
Retained the following Trade dollars for "education" sake.
The following two were listings that I had reported and got taken them down because there were no such coins ever minted.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/u-s-coins/quarters/PCGS-2020-quarter-quest/album/247091
as i think about it, i'm kinda surprised there aren't more pre-morgan dollar period counterfeits out there (publicly known) considering the monetary gain potential. it sure didn't stop them from trying on the morgans considering how many i've seen. probably a few hundred at this point and that is just a mediocre effort on my part.
how or why they used the date on that type is pretty interesting. someone with enough know how but not enough numis-knowledge? perhaps they did it just for fun?
surely going through all that trouble, there would be a few hundred from a set of dies, if they could afford that much silver at any given time?
be interesting to see the scanned metal content.
i'll guess it is a half but could easily be a dollar.
One of my faves!
Worst & Favorite ? Not necessarily in that order.
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Found this in a Jefferson Whitman folder I inherited. I was slightly disappointed
From a thread by @Lostintranslation this morning:
This one weighs just about right in the holder.
Near as I can tell It's a wax cast in aluminum and gold plated.
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What, no "S" ?
Cheapskates.
You made my day! I'm just flattered you commented on one of my posts. 👍🏻 😀 😉
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )