Counterfeit Dollars

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Think this is a scene for "Loss Man".

 

Fair price is about $2 each at your local flea market. And yet some of these still routinely get bid up into the hundreds, occasionally thousands, of dollars on eBay.

 

Ah, yes, the elusive 1906 Ellis Island dollar.

Well, maybe not so elusive -- I've seen an awful lot of them crop up here...

 

Fair price is not $2. Fair price is $0, which is what they're worth. These were meant to deceive collectors.

 

Those are some terrible looking counterfeits. I once saw someone try and sell one to a guy at a gun show to a gun dealer who was going to pay the guy $400 for it. It was something like an 1838-CC. I kindly told him that the CC mint wasnt even around that year and that the coin was a counterfeit. He didnt buy it thank goodness.

 

Thanks for buying these and supporting the counterfeiting effort.
Hats off to you.

 

Cat got your tongue?

 

Some of them were meant to deceive collectors, most were meant to deceive idiots who want to make a profit by low-balling people. Either way they are worth a couple dollars as novelty pieces and/or learning tools.

 

This is my last post to one of his threads without any comment.

 

A more fair price would be $250,000 and 20 years.

 

OK, so you have pictures of a bunch of poorly made counterfeits of a style that first appears about 15 years ago.

Do you have a point to this post?

 

I think it's good to see other counterfeit coins if for nothing else, just seeing what's out there. I have a couple Trade Dollar fakes I got in Laos a few years ago that are too real looking....until you weigh it and put it on a real TD and see it's just a little bit smaller than the real thing.

In So. Cal. at a busy Sunday flea market type deal at a junior college where I grew up there are several Mexican dealers that have baskets with lots of fake Peace dollars and pesos in them for a couple bucks each.

 

Isn't it a violation of U.S law to even POSSESS counterfeit currency, coins or banknotes, of ANY country?

 

Law and enforcement of law are two very different things

 

To POSSESS them? No. To buy, sell, use, or even give them away, Yes. Unless they are marked COPY in compliance with the HPA.

 

THIS is why I got into collecting. I found IT in my mothers house after she had passed, along with three others. I thought I had hit GOLD..The term "sucker born every minute", was me when I tried to sell them.