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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;guanelid, post: 509846, member: 16988&quot;]At the suggestion of Hobo, I&#039;m kicking off a discussion of &quot;contemporary&quot; counterfeit coins, defined as &quot;a counterfeit coin, usually base metal, which is minted from crude dies and then made to pass for legal tender when it is created.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve had one for years, and it has sentimental value because my father found it when he was a boy.&nbsp; I assumed they were rare, but in preparing to start this discussion, I did a quick Google search and eBay search and I&#039;m amazed, and a little frightened, at how common they seem to be.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently some CCs (not to be confused with Carson City coins) are so good that even PCGS is fooled.&nbsp; According to this article on the PCGS website, they discovered they had certified a large number of them only when they had an opportunity to certify several at once, and made careful comparisons.</p><p><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article_view.chtml?artid=4400&amp;universeid=313" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article_view.chtml?artid=4400&amp;universeid=313" rel="nofollow">www.pcgs.com/articles/article_view.chtml?artid=4400&amp;universeid=313</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I&#039;m throwing open the topic for discussion.&nbsp; My own CC looks like a 1923-S Walking Liberty half.&nbsp; I hope you can see in the attached photo that the color is way off, and the heft and sound of the metal is also way off.&nbsp; It&#039;s a battleship gray color, much lighter than silver, and it clanks instead of pings when dropped on a hard surface.&nbsp; (If the attachment doesn&#039;t come through, I&#039;ve posted the same photo in a public photo album on this forum.)&nbsp; My father found it while crawling in the basement of an abandoned house in San Francisco, when he was about 10.&nbsp; That was in 1935, which is probably close to the time it was made.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anybody collect them?&nbsp; Anybody ever bought one, assuming it was genuine?&nbsp; The fact that there are a dozen sellers on eBay honest enough to clearly disclose that they are offering a CC makes me wonder how many others are out there. </p><p><br /></p><p>Dean Guaneli (guanelid)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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