As the title states, check out the link for a counterfeit 1821 quarter. I usually hate to call out a coin so fervently without others' confirmation but it has a lot wrong with it and is has no chance at being real. For starters, all 1820s quarters should have a curled top 2 in the date, not a clubbed top 2 as the coin in question has. If you all want, I can list off some other stuff wrong with it but I hate to make a laundry list of mistakes for a counterfeiter to find. Feel free to report the listing. Below are the images for posterity's sake. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1821-Capped...3Adcce360615c0aa42ead21ad1fffd752b%7Ciid%3A13
I don't know alot about 1820's quarters/fakes being sold on ebay. Is this a common occurrence? I'm asking because I don't buy coins on ebay for fear of being scammed. I love to collect coins but I don't want to be scammed.
There's usually not too many fake bust quarters that I see on eBay, but when they do show up they are almost always this type. Another attribution point is the three denticles close together beneath the first 1 in the date. This only appears on three 1818 varieties so if you see the tripled denticles on any other date it's automatically fake. Sadly it's modern. https://m.aliexpress.com/s/item/755...lgo_pvid=00e08cd0-62c9-43ef-9555-85c8e4eb3bec
For about 10 years now china have been making fake coins like this and the morgans too for some reason.take a magnet to test if it is real silver if it sticks to coin its fake if it doesn't stick its real
About 10 years ago a lot of Chinese fakes were made from a magnetic alloy, but they wised up fairly quickly and most of the chinese fakes for the past 7 or 8 years or more are NOT magnetic. Make them out of German silver (a copper/nickel/zinc alloy), looks a lot like silver, and it is not magnetic. So if you have a coin that is supposed to be silver but a magnet sticks to it, it is fake. If it doesn't stick that does NOT mean that it is real.