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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 10255, member: 669&quot;]It might be helpful to know where and from whom you got them.&nbsp; Like Gilbert &amp; Sullivan&#039;s Mikado, I &quot;have a little list&quot; of known sellers of counterfeits/replicas.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My specialty area is modern Japanese - 1870-date, and what little familiarity I have with Chinese silver developed from dealing with the frequent mis-attribution that gets many of them listed on EBay, Yahoo, and expecially Amazon, as &quot;Japanese&quot;.&nbsp; Several of yours are coins which I do know to have been heavily counterfeited/replicated, both contemporary with their issue and recently.&nbsp;&nbsp; Many of the recent ones are sold throughout Asia as &quot;souvenirs&quot;, and one reason you may have found observes and reverses that don&#039;t match the SCWC is that many of these souvenir items pair attractive sides, whether or not they come from the same coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Some of these coins are sold as &quot;reproductions&quot;, even though they lack any &quot;copy&quot; or other inscription to identify them as such.&nbsp; Fake British, US and Japanese Trade Dollars, as well as Chinese Yuan, Korean Won and Japanese Yen, are commonly listed on internet auctions from Beijing, Singapore, Seoul, Taiwan, and - believe it or not - Canada.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The first two things to look for are weight and the distinctive surface appearance of castings.&nbsp; Diameter is also frequently off - I have one in my counterfeit collection with a 40mm diameter, and a 19g weight, although the genuine coin would be 38.6mm and weigh 2 hairs less than 27g.&nbsp; Both valuable and inexpensive coins are counterfeited and sold as souvenirs, so I personally wouldn&#039;t buy <b>any</b> of your batch sight unseen. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp;&nbsp; Sorry. <img src="http://sc.communities.msn.com/themes/pby/img/emoticons/emcry.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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