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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aidan Work, post: 161497, member: 1824&quot;]<b>Forgeries from China.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ben,a lot of coin forgeries originate in China.It isn&#039;t only the Chinese silver dollar-sized coins that get forged,but popular coins such as the British Trade Dollar &amp; the Indian silver 1 Rupee are also often forged.There are 2 ways to identify a forgery,apart from the wrong obverses &amp; reverses being paired up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look at the colour.If it appears a dull grey with a soapy appearance,then it is a giveaway that it is a dud.</p><p><br /></p><p>Weigh the thing.If it is very light or lighter than it should be,then it is definitely a dud.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most common forgeries I have seen is of British Trade Dollars of the rarer dates such as the 1921,the 1934,&amp; the excessively rare 1935.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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