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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2540600, member: 4781&quot;]I have several cast lead counterfeits including a 1909 Indian Head cent (I don&#039;t know why anyone would bother with that). I generally don&#039;t collect cast counterfeits, but I&#039;ve ended up with a few anyway, and a couple are fairly high grade for that sort of thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I do usually collect any die-struck vintage counterfeits. I&#039;m in the market for the 1923-D and 1930-D &quot;Soviet&quot; dimes, but I&#039;ve never seen one offered for sale. That 1848 small-date large cent is really neat too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a currently unlisted die-struck vintage counterfeit 1877 half dollar that I came across last year:</p><p><img src="http://www.designscomputed.com/coin_pics/seat_50_1877_fake_obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.designscomputed.com/coin_pics/seat_50_1877_fake_rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I spotted this on eBay a couple years ago. It is the only vintage counterfeit Morgan Dollar from hand-cut dies that I am aware of (this one is about .800 fine silver):</p><p><img src="http://www.designscomputed.com/coin_pics/dc_morg_1901O_hc_obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.designscomputed.com/coin_pics/dc_morg_1901O_hc_rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>And here is one you don&#039;t see every day. A genuine-looking circulated 1893-O Morgan in a recent PCGS slab. But if you look closely, you will see that it has the wide gap between the back of the Eagle&#039;s neck and wing (which is the reverse hub type of 1900). So this is a privately-made VAM-6:</p><p><img src="http://www.designscomputed.com/coin_pics/jan_1893-O_pcgs_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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