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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 8087901, member: 101855"]So long as it’s made of gold, the first item does not matter. Even if the coins are genuine, they have been wrecked so badly by jewelry use that they are worth the scrap value, not even melt. </p><p><br /></p><p>The “1851” is so bad that it’s funny, at least to a collector who knows anything about the genuine item. Unfortunately some people, who know nothing, would be fooled. </p><p><br /></p><p>Believe it or not, the president of the first coin club I joined was buying worse counterfeits than this from the club treasurer. The “gold dollars” were so bad that they looked like the “California fractional gold pieces” that Woolworth was selling for $2 in the 1960s. They were crude castings that even had the mold stems hanging off them. The treasurer was charging the president $75 apiece for these things, which was the retail price for Uncirculated Type I Gold Dollars at the time, the early 1970s. </p><p><br /></p><p>Needless to say, I was not a popular guy with club treasurer after I told the president about what he was buying.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 8087901, member: 101855"]So long as it’s made of gold, the first item does not matter. Even if the coins are genuine, they have been wrecked so badly by jewelry use that they are worth the scrap value, not even melt. The “1851” is so bad that it’s funny, at least to a collector who knows anything about the genuine item. Unfortunately some people, who know nothing, would be fooled. Believe it or not, the president of the first coin club I joined was buying worse counterfeits than this from the club treasurer. The “gold dollars” were so bad that they looked like the “California fractional gold pieces” that Woolworth was selling for $2 in the 1960s. They were crude castings that even had the mold stems hanging off them. The treasurer was charging the president $75 apiece for these things, which was the retail price for Uncirculated Type I Gold Dollars at the time, the early 1970s. Needless to say, I was not a popular guy with club treasurer after I told the president about what he was buying.[/QUOTE]
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