Anyone els ever get stuck with a fake??

Looks like I’m not alone, If the picture your showing is of a fake coin, it’s a darn good one… Maybe a bit of a funky color, but good. Buying certified (slab’d) coins is not just for the grade after all …. Rope

 

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Your right, but this one made me MAD ... I have others, maybe one of these days I’ll photo them and put them in another thread.

 

just bloody well bought one...........an 1872 trade dollar for £10, it will be winging it's way back to the seller next week when he is in town again................with a word in his ear to boot

 

If you mean a U.S. trade dollar, again you not the only one, this series had been hit hard by fakes. Some easy to spot, some veeery difficult, best to buy this one certified. Have fun and roll on.

 

Here is a link to some counterfeits I have come across.
https://picasaweb.google.com/Ripley44mag/Counterfeits#

 

It puzzled me either..
Wakaranai means I do not understand. Which is which one. One from a coin dealer or from one of the people attending in coin show. (Bought a FAKE COIN)
One thing more how much $$ involve on this transaction.

 

The problem with that is the slabs are being counterfeited, too. And the really cunning fakers use ID numbers that match the year and condition of the "coins" they're selling, so even looking them up won't save you.

I mentioned earlier I quit buying coins because of all the chicanery afoot in our hobby. Now I don't even see a safe way to reverse that.

 

A coin shop in China with a prominently displayed license can usually be trusted. Anything bought anywhere else in China can be presumed fake.

 

Knowing hind sight is always the best sight, it’s almost too nice. Oh well forge on..