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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1468446, member: 66&quot;]The problem with trying to come up with a price guide for colonials is that they are very frequently collected by variety and it is the variety market that tends to set a lot of the prices.&nbsp; Then there is the problem of grading.&nbsp; Colonials vary wildly in strike quality, planchet quality, and design even within the same series.&nbsp; You can have several specimens from the same series that all &quot;grade&quot; VF-20 but the prices may be an order of magnitude different.</p><p><br /></p><p>Are there fakes?&nbsp; Sure contemporary fakes an modern ones.&nbsp; The contemporary&#039;s tend to get cataloged and collected right along with the genuine coins.&nbsp; (and in most cases are worth more)&nbsp; Most modern fakes tend to be pretty crude and are easily identified.&nbsp; And as for using modern methods to make a GOOD copy, modern equipment tends to make coins that LOOK like they were made on modern equipment.&nbsp; Remember every colonial coin is unique.&nbsp; Copies run off on a modern press will all tend to look alike. And if they are modeled after a real coin the dies will reproduce the same bagmarks etc on all the new copies.&nbsp; And since the colonials have been extensively studied any piece that doesn&#039;t match a known variety is going to set off alarm bells.&nbsp; But colonials are scarce enough compared to other coins that even a modest group showing up will cause comment.&nbsp; I actually think you are fairly safe as far as fakes go on colonials other than the crude modern pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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