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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ziggy29, post: 17171, member: 1113&quot;]True, but in this case, it&#039;s more region-specific than that.&nbsp; If it were just a matter of faking the most popular coins, in Asia they&#039;d be faking 1877 and 1909-S VDB cents, 1916-D dimes, 1901-S quarters, 1893-S dollars, et cetera.</p><p><br /></p><p>But because Trade Dollars were circulated in the Orient -- indeed, that&#039;s where they were intended to circulate when minted -- they became the popular old coins that everyone locally wanted to collect.&nbsp; So there may be &quot;contemporary&quot; fakes (of lesser quality, usually, being 120 years ago) to just pass off as a real silver coin, and &quot;collector&quot; fakes to sell to unsuspecting collectors.&nbsp; Some guys on eBay, as I said before, seem to make a living off of selling counterfeit, non-silver junk for $10-$40 on each sale.&nbsp; And the sad thing is, a lot of buyers probably think they&#039;re ripping off the seller who just has no idea what that 1877-S Trade Dollar (one of the most commonly faked dates) is worth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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