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<p>[QUOTE="p91, post: 2877969, member: 6174"]I'm going ahead and returning these coins - but from my correspondence with the seller, coupled with the variety, relatively small amount and consistent funky-look to most of these coins, I am thinking there is a chance that they came from a collection of vintage counterfeits from this persons Grandpa - which apparently does have collectibility to some. That being said - I bought them as dug/water damaged authentic silver coins, and with the amount of chinese fakes on the market am going to pass on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I once received an unopened since the 1950's whisky bag, with silver coins from my Great Uncle. There was a counterfeit seated half dollar in there - so counterfeiting is nothing new, and can be quite interesting if there's real history to it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="p91, post: 2877969, member: 6174"]I'm going ahead and returning these coins - but from my correspondence with the seller, coupled with the variety, relatively small amount and consistent funky-look to most of these coins, I am thinking there is a chance that they came from a collection of vintage counterfeits from this persons Grandpa - which apparently does have collectibility to some. That being said - I bought them as dug/water damaged authentic silver coins, and with the amount of chinese fakes on the market am going to pass on them. I once received an unopened since the 1950's whisky bag, with silver coins from my Great Uncle. There was a counterfeit seated half dollar in there - so counterfeiting is nothing new, and can be quite interesting if there's real history to it.[/QUOTE]
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