Anyone know of a site that sells really good counterfeit coins without the copy stamp on them, just for educational reasons? stainless
All replica coins need to have "COPY" on them or they violate US law. http://collectors.org/Library/Hobby_Protection_Act.asp What possible "educational reason" would you have to need a coin without "COPY" on it?
Because the counterfeits that fool you, don't have COPY on it....if it says copy, I would know it is fake. stainless
Counterfeits coins are illegal. But visit ebay and buy as many Gold Raw US coins from Chinese vendors and this should handle all you can afford.
There are rules against selling fakes. But, eBay can't police their own sites, mostly because they do not know a real from a fake.
Actually, I just did a serch on E-Bay for "Coins and Currency", location: China, and all the US coins for sale say "replica". Maybe E-Bay policing efforts are improving. Or, the counterfeiters could just be taking the day off.
Where I work, we actually partner with E-bay and they give us the ability to take fraud/copyright violators' pages down and suspend their Ebay accounts. But with coins, I'm not sure that there'd be a non-profit org that would be able to affort being a Ebay partner just to police their site for fakes.
I disagree. The passing of counterfeits as real is illegal, but the ownership of counterfeits is very legal. Speedy
The sellers may SAY the coins are stamped, maybe even show it in the images, but of the 25 I've bought only 2 were actually stamped. I suspect I could have complained about those and swapped them off for ones that were not marked but I only wanted them for examples, not for resale.
Run a search on e-bay for "full horn".....you'll find examples of altered, not really counterfeit, key date buff's. One guy will even mail you one for free. Whatever makes a buck I guess........ Will give you an example of what not to purchase...IMHO.
