E pluribus unum 1878 100 cents. Hi, please i want to know if my coin réal or fake. Weight 17.5grams. Check pictures. Thank you very much
Your item there is a fake Goloid dollar; probably a modern Chinese counterfeit. The weight and details are wrong. If that were real, it would be worth a lot of money. Sadly, it's phony.
Cool! Nice to see someone from your part of the world posting. We had a member from Egypt a while ago. You're the only other North African I can remember, though we have a member from Namibia as well.
There are several different ones on Aliexpress from China. This one is interesting as it comes either silver plated ( prob. like the lighter one you have) and also for $40,a 90% silver coin which will weigh much closer to expected. They get scarier and scarier. Jim https://www.aliexpress.com/item/90-...ic-Dollar-Patterns-copy-coin/32813077055.html
That one is certainly much more deceptive, though I'm sure there are plenty of subtle things that are still "off", like the lettering. The lettering and numerals on Chinese counterfeits is usually the first thing I notice.
For starters post pictures here, but just keep in mind that the real ones are proofs and rare, while for every real one there are probably a thousand or more fakes and the number of fakes is rapidly increasing.
