Are these coins real?

All three appear to be very crude counterfeits to me.

 

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All fake the second I saw the 20 cent I was like yeah right a 76 cc 20 cent is a 6 figure coin the merc looks plain wrong as does the slq

 

The first thing that jumped out to me about the double dime was the odd looking mint mark.

 

Yup mm was plain wrong plus again the surviving population is between 12-20 nearly all were melted is a well known ultra rarity

 

All 3 of them are counterfeit. They look like chinese coins with that typical "gray" color on the surfaces. Even the junk Mercury is a fake (I see no reason to fake a Mercury.... lol) Any coin that look like this, avoid.

 

Good point it's really not worth it to fake the Mercury Dime or The Standing Liberty Quarter. The only one that's worth it to fake is the Carson City Twenty Cent Piece. I wonder why someone would go thru the trouble to make cheap fakes of a common date MD and SLQ?

 

A 1921 Mercury Dime is a bit of a better date.

 

There faking everything a common date Morgan that they sell for $25 that costs $1 to make even

 

They definitely have that "cast" look to them. The numerals in the date on the twenty-cent piece look bloated.

 

I too think they are all fakes. Besides the color being off the lettering in the date of the SLQ is wrong, the Merc dime has granules on the rim left after pouring in a mold, and the detail in the 20 center lacks sharpness but it's not due to circulating. Those four things grabbed my attention first.

 

The ascending date on that Merc is the best laugh I've had all day.

 

The whole bunch are fake for sure!.....

 

Whenever I see counterfeit coins like these posted on this forum, there is always something about the coins that seem off, but I often find it difficult to articulate exactly why. However, I have looked at a lot of genuine coins since I first started collecting over 30 years ago, so the fake ones just stand out.

Therefore, my advice to anyone starting out would be to spend a lot of time online and even more preferably at coin shops looking at all sorts of genuine coins in different grades. Your time will be much better spent this way than studying fakes...

 

I agree. Chinese Cash collectors have a name for this, it's called the shen of the coin. Real coins have this artistic balance, fakes do not. The best way to protect yourself from fake coins is to look at and study thousands of real ones.

 

So that must be a really difficult series for counterfeit detection, considering the coins are cast and made in China to begin with lol...

 

I'm only a novice coin collector and these coins were obvious to me. The Chinese need to step up their game if 22 year olds like myself are spotting them. I've only been in the collecting field for a few years.

 

I'm 14 and I knew they were fakes.

 

The good ones of today can be tough. All made before say 2005 aren't hard to spot due to the idea I expressed. Real coins have a certain life to them, while counterfeits seem flat and lifeless. The same idea holds with most fakes.

 

They've never got the surfaces and artificial wear quite right especially when you studyvoriginal surface and artificial color they're just always a bit off