Jack Young’s Fun with Fakes- 1795 Flowing Hair Dollar$

I am working on a concept for articles on some of the less deceptive raw fakes currently seen on the internet selling venues. The 1st one with that in mind is this counterfeit 1795 dollar…


The recent one was listed on the Bay and was gaining traction before it went poof:


I posted it in one of my FB Groups for attribution help and was quickly told the source was a 1795 BB-27, commonest variety of the date.




Reviewing images of the subject coin I noted some marks for comparison to others I had archived:


And going through my saved images yielded these three with matching marks:


And the kicker (there is always a kicker!) is the one on the right is dated 1794 and in a fake PCGS holder!


And the twist!

A little more searching yielded this one with the matching reverse marks:


And for a whole lot less than the $510.00 bid on the Bay example!


I understand they can be purchased without the pesky “COPY” stamp…

Best Jack.

 

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I Read the thread again.

The date on the Ali Babba counterfeit is much better.

 

The fake '95's look much like the source used for them; punched in other dates seem to always look off...

 

Is graffiti being added to some of these to lend an air of authenticity?

 

Enjoyed the read, thank you.

 

Seems like the large hole in the left ribbon is pretty obvious too.

 

I thought so too until I found a low grade example image...

 

Jack D. Young, posted: "I thought so too..."

Ditto, then I did what you did. I wish we had the Internet in the old days!

 

Revision to my rough draft- found a Bay seller with several of these listed. Some will sneak past...

 

Hey, Forget about it!! Brooklyn Baby! What do you want? It says from Brooklyn, NY.