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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2172003, member: 4781&quot;]Both coins shown are counterfeits, I believe. And neither appears to have been over-struck on anything other than an anonymous smooth blank planchet. Do you have better (higher-resolution) pictures of them ?</p><p><br /></p><p>The second coin shown, when genuine, was worth a lot more than scrap value 10 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>As stated previously, the identifying &quot;mark&quot; on my over-strikes is the non-existant date. But suppose an &quot;amateur&quot; was offered one and looked it up in the &quot;Red Book&quot; or similar price guide and found that there was no listing for a &quot;1916&quot; Barber Half Dollar. If they would do just a little due diligence and look up &quot;1916 Barber Half Dollar&quot; on Lycos or Google, they would find my product listing in the top ten sites returned from that search.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A couple points to consider:</p><p><br /></p><p>My first (and by far most successful) over-strike coin was the &quot;1964-D&quot; Peace Dollars which I produced and sold out of in 2010. It has been five years since, and that has not caused a wave of fantasy-date over-strike coins. In fact, there haven&#039;t been any produced by anyone else that I know of. Counterfeits of actual-date coins are another matter, however.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is there to stop Chinese (or other) counterfeiters ? They already have been mass producing counterfeits for the last 10 years at least (long before I ever made a fantasy-date over-strike). I suppose they have no need to make a fantasy-date piece when they can make an actual counterfeit of an existing key-date coin and potentially sell it for a lot more than any fantasy-date coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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