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<p>[QUOTE="TrungQuocDon, post: 3198555, member: 97349"]I just to buy a lot of Chinese silver coins on eBay back in the day, one was able to get quite a bit for almost no money and most were genuine, in all of my days I only bought a single fake silver piece through eBay (and I knew it was fake! I just bought it as it was a replica of my favorite Xuantong era silver coin), nowadays these fakes are the norm with fantasies popping up left and right, it's so bad that I don't trust anything Chinese in general, I remember while I was in Chinatown (New York City) a couple of decades ago how fake Republic of China silver dollars (and many of them fantasies) were being sold at every street corner, often people proclaiming them to be real causing me to automatically distrust anything I would buy in that neighbourhood. The thing is, unless you're buying silver coins from reputable auctions, reputable sellers, and/or Taiwanese shops you can be 99.9% certain that you're buying a fake. I know that on the internet Bob Reis (Anything Anywhere) and Scott Semans (CoinCoin.com) are trustworthy sellers of these but as I live outside of the United States of America their shipping costs and policies don't suit me very well. </p><p><br /></p><p>7 Mace and 2 Candareens (1 Dollar, as in 1 Mexican Peso) pieces are universally the most likely to be faked and honestly unless it's a single item I would never trust them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TrungQuocDon, post: 3198555, member: 97349"]I just to buy a lot of Chinese silver coins on eBay back in the day, one was able to get quite a bit for almost no money and most were genuine, in all of my days I only bought a single fake silver piece through eBay (and I knew it was fake! I just bought it as it was a replica of my favorite Xuantong era silver coin), nowadays these fakes are the norm with fantasies popping up left and right, it's so bad that I don't trust anything Chinese in general, I remember while I was in Chinatown (New York City) a couple of decades ago how fake Republic of China silver dollars (and many of them fantasies) were being sold at every street corner, often people proclaiming them to be real causing me to automatically distrust anything I would buy in that neighbourhood. The thing is, unless you're buying silver coins from reputable auctions, reputable sellers, and/or Taiwanese shops you can be 99.9% certain that you're buying a fake. I know that on the internet Bob Reis (Anything Anywhere) and Scott Semans (CoinCoin.com) are trustworthy sellers of these but as I live outside of the United States of America their shipping costs and policies don't suit me very well. 7 Mace and 2 Candareens (1 Dollar, as in 1 Mexican Peso) pieces are universally the most likely to be faked and honestly unless it's a single item I would never trust them.[/QUOTE]
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