Never assume otherwise you will be burnt. This is just a few examples of some of the high quality counterfeits out in the market....
With Chinese Pandas, you REALLY need to know what you are dealing with otherwise you will be bitten with counterfeits. There are some high quality...
Thanks scottishmoney - looks like I'll have to put more than a couple of cents in this. Here's an example over at ebay....
Yours could be an overstrike as well Siberian Man. Pictures aren't clear enough but I suspect it can be a possiblity. I do not think it's rare...
Agreed Doug, they skipped the hassle of melting down old coins and making new planchets.
The way I see overstrikes, I see it as a cheap way of using old coins and producing fresh coins out of them. Whether this is to erase old monarchy...
Looks a bit too modern looking in my opinion but I don't collect these so I can't say I'm an expert on these.
It does not look genuine to me to be honest. Fonts just doesn't look right. Will look up a reference when I get around to it.
Being impatient & mixing random chemicals may end you in hospital. Hospital bill is more likely to be more expensive than a couple of nickels....
I don't think a genuine coin was used in this case. Title mentions "cast coin".
Why not? You can make money out of anything as long as you understand where your supply and demand is coming from.
Back in the days when you have Dansco, Whitman making neat albums for foreign coins, there's something that they gambled. That is world coins...
I was trying to remove duplicates in my collection to sell them off and found this interesting set. I realize I am a terrible hoarder and this has...
Give this page a shot: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/roberts/coins/Kaneibasics.html
Went on a rampage to buy a hoard of Manchukuo coins - they seem to be drying up quite quickly. There is probably more than 100 coins in this lot....
You'll never know the real price with these packaged coins unless you look carefully. Franklin mint packaged coins can be a surprise eye opener -...
Yes, the denomination is "fun" and it's fun to find when something like this pops up. This coin is a Korean 1902 5 fun. [img] I wasn't...
Saw this coin on offer and the price wasn't that expensive. On top of that, this is a very unusual design - I got bitten by it. [img] No state...
I just trusted the seller Taxidermist. Only reason why I bought this is because I wanted a coin to represent my coin element collection. It's only...
Bought this recently and found it intriguing. [img] Here's more information:...
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