I can only see the coin is ruined but anyone know a reason why someone would make this, is there a reason I don't know about? https://www.ebay.com/itm/1876567667...pMPhSNbmkId3nR/ZE3zsnMRw==|tkp:Bk9SR7rsz4buZg
I'm at a loss! What's amazing is some of these sellers on the bay, I see it a lot with gold love tokens, obvious ruined gold coins and the sellers are asking full retail, it's insane!
These are very popular with the Chinese counterfeiters, so you're right to be suspicious. But I will say that I do not see any obvious red flags on this one. Could it still be fake? Sure, but if so, it's a wee bit more sophisticated than a lot of the fake ones I've seen. It could be OK, unless somebody notices something I'm missing? But I guess that's kind of a semi-moot point since it's a jewelry item now.
Like I said on another thread, I probably have my counterfeit-detection circuits dialed over a little too far to the "suspicious" side. This one has the same sooty circ-cam toning that's so very prevalent on fakes, and looks to me like it has soft devices. But this type is way out of my wheelhouse - I'm not sure I've seen another, real or fake - so I'm certainly not the person to ask.
Have you weighed it? I'm wondering if the coin + coil might equal exactly one ounce and have been used as a counterweight. The coil appears silver, so for whatever reason it was done, it was likely done a long time ago.
I see your point. While I have owned a couple of them, they're sufficiently enough out of my wheelhouse that I couldn't confidently say yeah or nay here, though as previously mentioned, it looks mostly OK to me (with the proverbial grain of salt implied by my relative inexperience).
