Feuchtwanger Cent Counterfeits?

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• ebaybuyer Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭

  April 20, 2011 12:39PM

  the"unscrupulous" will copy anything they can make a buck on.

  regardless of how many posts I have, I don't consider myself an "expert" at anything

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• holeinone1972 Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭

  April 20, 2011 12:40PM

  Arent they counterfeits themselves?
  
  
  

  

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• ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 20, 2011 12:42PM

  I remember seeing a contemporary counterfeit of the feuchtwanger cent on ebay quite awhile back. It was very crude...I really wish now I had bought it.
  
  J.J. Ford had in his holdings a few of the New York Shield 3 cent pieces which upon careful investigation proved to be cast copies. Ive not heard of them anywhere else though.
  
  Generally speaking though there are no counterfeit problems with them. All the varieties know are well documented, and easy to verify through archive photos.

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• TPRC Posts: 3,814 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 20, 2011 1:48PM

  I owned a 1 cent counterfeit at one point. Very crude and very obvious!

  Tom

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,867 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 20, 2011 5:30PM

  
  
  << <i>Arent they counterfeits themselves? >>
  
  
  
  Of course not. They don't come close to imitating any U.S. cent.

  Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
  "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
  "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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• carlk Posts: 14 ✭✭

  April 21, 2011 10:12AM

  So no modern counterfeits to worry about? I just checked a few Feuchtwangers on ebay and boy they are some interesting tokens. I just wanted to know how much I research I needed to do to be sure I don't get ripped off. BTW I saw a modern copy of an 1875 CC twenty cent piece and it looked pretty convincing.

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