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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 1805635, member: 4373&quot;]Jolumoga, I have to disagree with your advice for many reasons. </p><p><br /></p><p>Avoiding buying coins from China is not helpful as you are just putting a bias opinion of sources where counterfeits could come from. It would not help especially if you have a seller with more than thousands of feedback who recently bought counterfeits and resell them. Unfortunately I had a similar experience coming from a US seller. He had excellent feedbacks and he unwittingly sold a counterfeit. It was a pretty deceiving one as well. Bought one from Japan - fake as well. You should <u>never</u> use location as a guideline. </p><p><br /></p><p>Weight of coins is another tricky one. There can be significant weight variance even with silver coins - could be in the range of +- 0.3 grams. Slabs are equally bad as well - there are known counterfeits as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>My personal advice is, if you do express desire in collecting Chinese coins, you need to know your dealers whether it is in person or online and let them guide you for a good period of time. Catalog is another must. They are getting amazingly difficult to diagnose and it has become a stage where collectors have to compare against known genuine coins versus coins that they have in front of them. Even edge detection could be difficult to tell. You need to know the details of the coins in and out. Definitely not for the faint hearted. </p><p><br /></p><p>Personally if you are buying on ebay here&#039;s one tip I can advice. Look up at historical price record and if a certain type of coin on average sells for let&#039;s say more than 300 dollars - would you think a lot would miss out if one sells for under 100 dollars? Possible if the seller has put it for &quot;Buy it now&quot; and someone catches it first but look carefully. Looking at previous buys and look at the pictures and compare it. And here&#039;s one more thing - the era of cheap Chinese coins are gone especially nice silver crowns. Just doesn&#039;t happen unless someone ignorant decides to sell them at scrap metal price or they are more likely to be counterfeits. OR you have access to a local coin dealer where not many would want to touch foreign coins and you happened to be the first lucky person.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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