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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 3747796, member: 19165&quot;]Collectors don&#039;t tend to suspect low grade common coins as being counterfeit, especially if they look circulated or aged.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you could make a fake coin for $2 and sell it for $20, would you?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you could make 2,000 of them and sell them with no suspicion, you&#039;d make a heckuva lot more profit than if you made a single $25,000 coin. That&#039;s almost guaranteed to get closely checked and found out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I&#039;m not saying that this coin is counterfeit - I really don&#039;t know a whole lot about South African coins. All I&#039;m saying is that low value &quot;common&quot; coins are quite often faked, because they aren&#039;t questioned as much.</p><p><br /></p><p>You also have to consider contemporary counterfeits. I collect Moroccan coinage of the late 1800&#039;s - there aren&#039;t very many modern counterfeits, but there are quite a few contemporary fakes intended to pass in circulation. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for this coin, it has problems - it is either counterfeit, or it has been very harshly stripped and cleaned. The very harsh cleaning may alter the surfaces so much that it looks fake, but it&#039;s hard to tell from a single set of pictures.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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