I posted that this was happening a few weeks ago and no one seemed to believe me. Don't wanna say it, but told ya so :yuck:...
No categories for world coins :(
It's just a fantasy piece, a novelty meant for collectors. There are some people that actively collect modern fantasy pieces knowing exactly what...
Well the "copper" would not have been visible when the coin was new, though from your pictures it appears to be silver washed brass rather than...
Nah, targeting novice collectors with really terrible vision is a very small market.
Yea this one is pretty darn crude. But some of them are high quality, like this 1901 Edward VII dollar...
Nice contemporary counterfeit, I love pieces like this :)
I've been talking about these types of high quality counterfeits for a while, but this is the first Cuban peso. They are expanding to more types...
That's a philosophical question bro, but the path that makes the least assumptions leads to yes :) It's modern and value is that of a novelty...
Fantasy designs that some collectors may pay a premium on, without the risk of legal issues since they are technically not counterfeiting existing...
They are not ignorant, they are doing it this way on purpose.
Hmm, interesting. And nice Swiss coins by the way.
By any chance are you shopping in Spain and/or Portugal? Those are the exceptions
From what I have seen coins originating in Europe are less often cleaned than US coins. And 95% of what I deal with are non-US coins :)
Jeez, you could probably fill up a small stadium with that. Staggering indeed.
The only fool-proof way to avoid buying fakes/damaged/cleaned/overgraded coins, whether raw or slabbed, is to stop collecting. All the things...
10 and 20 planchet sizes overlap, 10 decimos up to 32mm, 20 decimos 31mm and up. If weight below 16g, it's 10, if 16 or higher, it's 20.
Regular, the hoof over 9 has extra metal extending from the hoof and overlapping the right side of the 9.
I said the piece is an imitation of one of these, not that these two are imitations. :)
Your Bolivian coin is most certainly a rarity. However, I would not take the Krause population seriously. For example my 1829 Guatemala real the...
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