I wonder if this is the same guy that has approached coin sellers at flea markets around here with a bag of coins to sell and also, did not know what they were really worth. One guy approaced a seller several weeks in a row with the same bag of coins then vanished.
A coin shop didn't have the time to look at a bunch of silver coins, 1800 silver, CC Morgans, etc.??????????? He's Asian? He just wants to unload them but was already offered $4000 and turned it down and didn't do the least bit of research to see what he had? And I have a 1913 V nickel for you....never mind that it looks like I took a pen and changed the 12 to a 13, it's authentic, I promise! I'm sorry, but way to many red flags for me.
Technically no. These are being made recently and it is illegal to import unmarket copies into the country. The guys in China can legally make them because our laws don't apply there. For the same reason they can legally export them. But we can not legally import them.
Of course, you can always request that they stamp "copy" on any replica coin you buy... and they will. Now they become quite legal to import.
Young women travel back and forth from China all the time. Most folks think they're prostitutes...but they're really Coin Mules!