My wife and I were taking out some Christmas stuff. I opened a small box with a model building. In the box was this genuine/authentic, simulated/imitation, coin metal colored plastic, 1895 Morgan.
these were the "hole fillers" in my old Dansco 7178/7179 (2 album morgan set) admittedly most of those coins vg-xf but these were the 2 I was never able to fill.. (yes that is a P on the back of the 95 lol) silver plated copper but decent copies for all that... clearly marked as copies too as you can see....
It is all fun and games until you look at coin sale websites and you see obvious fakes from China sellers. $20k "coins" going for $19.95, over 35 sold. I'd rather deal with spy balloons and drones than this garbage openly sold in the US.
My Facebook feed is full of ads for fake Morgans and ASEs. I've reported them and Facebook has decided not to remove the ads.
I'm not endorsing, buying or selling fake coins. This was in a model of a building in a frontier town. A Christmas ornament. Somewhat like the little buildings that are used on model RR set ups. My first thought when I saw it was a memory of my father and me. We were at the kitchen table in the way back days. In this case before TV. Listening to the radio we hear an announcement. For one box top and twenty five cents you can get this toy. I don't remember what the toy was. But, it was made out of "genuine, authentic, simulated, imitation, gun metal colored plastic". Wow, we said, but did not order it.
