Horribly obvious fakes. What do you think the seller would say about it? :rolleyes:...
It's a very nice coin, but not worth getting it slabbed. These are not really that hot on the market unless you get a key date or a nice UNC...
An unfortunately true reality about my people.
I can't imagine they have anywhere near enough gold to balance such a huge and sudden devaluation. We are talking dollar amounts in the trillions...
I find it mind boggling that the ruble devalued by 50% in just three months time. Can you imagine the chaos if that happened to the US dollar?...
I think the issue may be that you misunderstand some of the responses
It's the [much less copied] version of a Maria Theresia thaler :)
@OldGoldGuy The other side of the debate would be that you would want to buy from a dealer that doesn't know what they are selling. Some...
I think I recognize that guy. He was arrested before. Here is the previous mugshot :woot: Never trust a man in a flowery dress. [IMG]
I have no doubt they are high purity gold. Jewelry and necessity copies (often made in the Middle East) of British sovereign coins are somewhat...
Plenty of dealers throw these coins in their scrap silver coin piles (well, except for the 8 reales). I have dozens of the 20'-40's 50 centavo/1...
Hm interesting. I can only guess that perhaps they used the same master die, just changed the second half of the date and sharpened up the first half.
Glad to help, variety attribution can be very frustrating :)
The incomplete top loop underlying the 0 is a clincher. Never really noticed the split serifs on the other dates, but I don't usually look too...
Fantasy coins from non-existing places :)
Nice example of a die on its last breath :dead:
Sounds like a perfect match to the diagnostics on all 4 digits, nice find. I don't currently have one, but I've seen a couple examples. It looks...
I was going to say the same thing. Other counterfeiter sellers have done the same, with both fake slabs and raw coins - picture a good coin, send...
Well when you say "both coins are MS" it implies they have been slabbed. I mean I personally agree with that, but people usually make these...
The counterfeiters over in China owe you a fat paycheck lol. But seriously this is s lower tier fake. They have made all the corrections as far as...
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