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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numismat, post: 2157299, member: 15019&quot;]Check out these top two here: <a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/winmarbre/m.html?item=111672907999&amp;hash=item1a003958df&amp;pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;LH_Complete=1&amp;rt=nc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/winmarbre/m.html?item=111672907999&amp;hash=item1a003958df&amp;pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;LH_Complete=1&amp;rt=nc" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/sch/winmarbre/m.html?item=111672907999&amp;hash=item1a003958df&amp;pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;LH_Complete=1&amp;rt=nc</a></p><p><br /></p><p>On the Augsburg thaler, see that major die crack across Ferdinand III&#039;s face? Someone would have been fired, if not imprisoned, for letting that one get out (if it was genuine, which it&#039;s not).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii314/Numismat/fake_augsburg1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii314/Numismat/fake_augsburg2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The French ecu is a more dangerous counterfeit. It looks like it was copied from an overstruck coin. The overstruck details can be a distraction for many collectors. This is one of the more convincing fakes. See this thread from 2012 on another forum, there are examples of both genuine pieces and the same copy showing the same over-strike characteristics (scroll down to the fifth post): <a href="http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=128393" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=128393" rel="nofollow">http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=128393</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii314/Numismat/fake_ecu2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii314/Numismat/fake_ecu1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: I copied the ebay pictures so that the fakes can be seen after the ebay link goes dead.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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