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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akhosravi, post: 1542297, member: 41040&quot;]A friend of mine got me interested in starting a coin collection a couple of weeks ago, so I&#039;m <i>very </i>new. I bought some silver 1 oz coins from around the world on eBay last week to add to a 1 oz gold eagle my parents gave me awhile ago. I also bid on some 1865 Maximilian &#039;coins&#039;. It was an impulse bid I soon regretted after doing research and finding out they were nothing more than gold plated &#039;tokens&#039;. Lesson number one: research first, buy second <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. In any case, the Maximilian tokens did still have some value (if as nothing else as scrap) as far as I could tell.</p><p><br /></p><p>What came in the mail yesterday though was something different. The Mexican Maximilian coins were instead some sort of knock of a gold American Eagle. The &#039;coins&#039; are obviously fake in my opinion, but this perks my interest in exactly what they are. I found the story behind the Maximillian tokens somewhat interesting (they had perhaps a dozen different versions and were used as some sort of wedding party favor in different parts of Latin America). </p><p><br /></p><p>The coins are very small (10mm) and weigh in at about a half gram. I received 100 of them and they all look pretty much the same with very low quality detailing. I ordered Maximillian coins that were supposed to be &quot;Mexican&quot;, but instead got this American knock off. The obverse side is a bad imitation of the same image on the american gold eagle. There appears to be no date, no denomination, nor any &quot;copy&quot; notation. Whatever it is doesn&#039;t react to a magnet. The luster appears very similar to the real 1oz American Gold Eagle I do have.</p><p><br /></p><p>The original eBay add indicated that they were gold plated with a low quality gold core (8-22k) which jived with some of the descriptions I found online. In any case, I&#039;d like to know as much as possible to justify my case for returning them.</p><p><br /></p><p>. [ATTACH]206000.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]206001.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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