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Message:: [QUOTE="Troodon, post: 26520081, member: 4626"]As I recall, a few Micro Os were counterfeits likely made when Morgan dollars were still being minted... other Micro-Os were likely made as recently as the 1940's (I swear I remember reading that somewhere, but can't seem to find any mention of later Micro-Os).  But all of these were made to be spent, not to fool collectors.  Until about the early 1960's it was still worth doing such. It's entirely possible that the fake Micro O's were mistakes by the counterfeiters.  New Orleans was rather notorious for their coins being of lower quality quite often; possibly why the fakes were made as if they were O-minted, so any inconsistencies wouldn't be looked at too closely. (Not to be confused with 1880-O & 1899-O Micro O, which are legitimate varieties.) I don't know if someone's making counterfeits of counterfeits lol... I mean, what's really the difference I guess.  (And rather ironically, some people may be making fakes of coins they don't know are already fake lol!)  Those are being made to fool collectors though, similar to people gold-plating "no cents" Liberty nickels to fool people into thinking... they were made to fool people back in the 1880's I guess.  (How many no cents nickels were ever actually gold plated at the time is debateable... I'm sure it was done to some degree, but not nearly as often as rumors would have you believe.)[/QUOTE]