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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CuMadMan, post: 2066851, member: 35522&quot;]Long Story Short:&nbsp; I bought 68 Coins from a market seller, (at a very low price $0.38 per coin) and so far most are fakes!</p><p><br /></p><p>On my recent trip to China I stumbled across a guy who was selling coins at a local market.&nbsp; Now his coins were in a nice holder, and he was the only person selling high end coins that may have been worth anything.&nbsp; Some other people in this market were also selling coins, but worthless things like, 1990 Lincoln Cent, or a 2005 Nickel...</p><p><br /></p><p>But when I opened this folder of coins, I immediately saw a Peace Dollar.&nbsp; Now I am not any expert on coin collecting, maybe I am just a novice, but I asked him how much for the coin.&nbsp; He wanted CNY 5 ($0.81) for the coin.&nbsp; Knowing the coin values, and seeing a Draped Bust coin, I told my girlfriend (who&#039;s chinese) to ask him how much for the entire book of 68 coins.&nbsp; He wanted CNY 160 ($25.78) for everything.&nbsp; I immediately took the offer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Upon reaching home I noticed some of these coins were blatant fakes (US Coins so Far)!&nbsp; Silver coins were sticking to magnets, some of the reverse sides were misaligned or positioned the wrong direction, and one coin (Trade Dollar) had a date of 1817.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did however find 4 coins, that I submitted to PCGS to see if they are definitely fake as I couldn&#039;t tell from tests and pictures online.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins I submitted to PCGS were:</p><ol> <li>1799 Draped Bust Dollar</li> <li>1846 Seated Liberty Dollar</li> <li>1922 Peace Dollar</li> <li>1896 Morgan Dollar</li> </ol><p>Considering I bought these coins roughly for $0.38, it&#039;s not really a loss but more of a learning experience!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the pictures of the coins inside the original book.</p><p><br /></p><p>NOTE: I did discard some of the blatant US Coin fakes in the book before returning to USA.&nbsp; Didn&#039;t want to run into any issues with big brother....</p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/qTYn19" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://flic.kr/p/qTYn19" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7522/16340700652_8ca0224900.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/qRKRLY" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://flic.kr/p/qRKRLY" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8578/16315627996_c90f13234e.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/pX3JPy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://flic.kr/p/pX3JPy" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8653/15719147214_8a90985f42.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/qRKRtJ" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://flic.kr/p/qRKRtJ" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7470/16315626996_93beabe935.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/qBuw1J" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://flic.kr/p/qBuw1J" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7526/16154203890_065f2dfb0b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/qBC78p" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://flic.kr/p/qBC78p" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7544/16155684437_9b20a4624d.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/qU3N9v" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://flic.kr/p/qU3N9v" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7526/16341565685_ff00ae7e90.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/qU3MR6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://flic.kr/p/qU3MR6" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7563/16341564675_af37bc6dd7.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">I will keep this thread updated on the other coins, as well as the 4 coins I submitted to PCGS!</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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