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High price for counterfeit.
Ending at £78 was a bit of a surprise even if it is a nice one. Billy
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High price for counterfeit.
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... Regards Herman a href="http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/jsp/system/Referral.jsp? ID=BTF_1_User_343870&target=http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/"My Referral Link/a |
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High price for counterfeit.
"Nick Knight" wrote in message ... 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 This coin was of course a contemporary counterfeit and interest in such coins must be on the up if this price is anything to go by, I would have expected a maximum of £30. The biggest problem with counterfeit coins are real coins, usually Spanish American dollars from around 1800 to 1810, with fake Scottish countermarks that if genuine can turn a coin from being worth £15 to one worth perhaps £2,000. The only book on UK counterfeits that I'm aware of is The Counterfeit Coin Story by Ken Peters, there are of course articles in the numismatic press about collectable old contemporary counterfeits, and modern fakes that are to be avoided like the plague of course. Normally the contemporary counterfeits that are crown size are easy to recognise as some of the silver plating has by now worn off. Billy |
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