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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 373642, member: 11521&quot;]You need to understand how this happened before you can appreciate why it happened.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This coin is a Chinese counterfeit. The counterfeiters have quite a few obverse dies of various dates as well as several reverse dies with various mintmarks (or no mintmark). They mix and match the obverse and reverse dies pretty much at random. These Chinese counterfeiters do good to make sure they matchan obverse die with a reverse die. I doubt they have a Red Book handy (and even if they did I doubt they could read it) so they do not have a clue that they are making a fake of a coin that never existed by matching a reverse die with an &quot;S&quot; mintmark with an 1847 obverse die. They most likely have never noticed the &quot;S&quot; mintmark and even if they did they probably do not know its significance. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have a few of these fantasy pieces myself but mine are 1848-S. (Yes, I bought them knowing they were fake.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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