buy Fake coin or relica coin?

Hi everybody:
Recently, I ready some article talk about fake coin, I find many peoples have buy fake coin experience. For example: numbers of peoples buy rare coin at low price on ebay, or other shopping site. In fact if you buy rare coin at low price, it may be fake. but I dont understanding, if people want enrich their collection, and want avoid deceived. why they didnt buy replica coin to study? and you?

 

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You wouldn't happen to be from China would you?

 

Heck of a question.......

To answer the OP question, (assuming he wants it answered and not just soliciting sales), I do not buy modern forgeries simply because it pays the forgeres for breaking our laws. There is a law in the US making such forgeries illegal, not to even mention the long term damage it does to our hobby.

Any forgeries I have I acquired second hand through group lot purchases. As soon as I am sure they are fakes I stamp them with a permanent mark and then simply give them away to kids. I only intentionally keep forgeries that are close enough to the original to be dangerous, so yes OP some of us DO have copies of forgers work, and try hard to educate collectors from getting scammed.

 

To the OP: Would you buy a replica BMW because you couldn't afford a real one but liked the look of them? Same principal applies to anything faked, and the Chinese have been faking everything from coins to drugs as of lately, to no good avail.
Guy

 

Don't feed the counterfieter......

 

The only time I'd see the need for someone to buy a replica would be to buy one of those over-sized replica's to hang in a shop or something as decoration, not to add to any actual coin collection.

 

Well, I buy the replica coin for this reason:

Please don't buy them as the original coins. I sell these copied coins only want to make your collections more perfect.

 

Someone who wants a typical modern replica to study can get one for a just a few dollars. Anytime you see them get bid up higher, someone is either getting ripped off or intends to rip someone else off in the future.

 

Or it's just someone stupid not realizing it's a replica. They do walk amongst us you know!

 

Is dat ingrish?

 

There have been a number of very rude and uncalled for posts to this thread. Posters should be given the benefit of the doubt, unless there is good reason to do otherwise. And if you're not sure of their motives, why not wait, instead of treating them rudely, so quickly?

 

Sorry Mark I don't often disagree with you but I am a firm beliver that the only way to lessen the counterfiet coins in the hobby is to just don't buy them. If they can't fill the rice bowl they will do something else.

 

Mark,
Chalk it up to the slowly building negativity and even animosity towards counterfeiters. It's like drip, drip, drip in a cup. Then when the cup is full, and someone shows up that has even a slight possibility of being affiliated with the counterfeiters - pop goes the weasel.
We humans sometimes just can't help our impulsive nature. =)

 

That's kind of not kosher =O

If eBay has taught me anything it's that as long as it's cheap enough, people will buy it. And Chinese sellers seem to be doing just fine selling stuff for $2 with free shipping (which still confuses the heck out of me).

 

Quite funny that when i posted a hypothetical about counterfeiters I got bashed...
I did call someones mommy and daddy though!!!!
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my girlfriends !!! Lol it was their anniversary

 

Dont ignore the difference between COPY coins and COUNTERFEIT coins

A copy coin is like the OP sells, clearly marked -copy- and used to fill a hole in an album. Amusment purposes only! Get it?
I have a $10 copy coin in the hole in place of a 1893s Morgan. Just for fun! No one would EVER mistake it for a real 1893s Morgan! In fact it looked so out of place (shiny) that I replaced it with a Club Wooden Nickel.

A counterfeit may be so close to original only an expert could tell the differences. Some differences can be very subtle. Just the length of the serif on number or a die bridge from one letter to another. Very loose distinctions to the naked eye.
Thank Goodness there are many who take an interest in, and collect and trade counterfeits, as that is the body of knowledge that we mere mortals can draw upon to verify the very expensive coins we may be considering. Without the counterfeit collections and the enthusiasts who delight in finding every last error to contrast the near perfect fakes against the real coins, we would all be sitting ducks.

 

I think that is a separate matter from making fun of and/or being rude to a poster who asked about them.

 

In reality yes, but at first it was assumed the poster was affiliated with the counterfeiters and just "trolling" for info that would benefit the counterfeiters. The reaction was to that assumption, not so much a general reaction to a new poster.

 

I before E except after C and also except when you spell counterfeiter, and a few other words.