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Old December 9th 07, 07:30 PM posted to rec.collecting.coins
Nick Knight
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Default High price for counterfeit.

In , on
12/09/2007
at 10:06 AM, said:

On Dec 9, 12:51 pm, "note.boy" wrote:
Ending at £78 was a bit of a surprise even if it is a nice one. Billy
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=260188101875

I Had the Same problem.
I collect American dollrs.
Beware of any item from the Mainland Of CHINA...


I think most of us know to be leary of "coins" offered by far-east eBay
sellers.

However, this piece wasn't really "a problem". The coin was clearly labeled
as a counterfeit, and looking at it, you can clearly see the classic signs
of an extremely off-metal copy, once plated perhaps, but whete the coating
has worn off and it just looks "funny". At first I thought eBay had missed
that key word in the title, but seeing as this is a UK auction and these are
totally technically legal, I'm betting there was no miss. SOMETIMES those
Brits make more sense than us Colonists

Some of us collection counterfeits. No, not those modern-day casts meant to
look like the real-thing copies from China, but "contemporary fakes". For
me, it's bogus bust halves made in the 1830's or so, and made to be
spendable as copies of the currently circulating coins of the time. There
are references available all about these, and despite some minor
belly-aching from the morally superior (please, read with as much sarcasm as
possible), there are many collectors chasing fakes like these.

This peices looks to me to be "contemporary", although I do not know much
about 8 reales coins nor their copies. It IS interesting, tho. In looks
alone if for no other reason!

Billy? Are there any references on crown-size counterfeits like this? Or
any "non US" counterfeits in general? I have a couple of non-US bogos, but
only because they were handy, looked cool and were "cheap". But I've never
really thought to learn more.

Nick
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