NUMBER 5.
This week we have something a little different. It appears to be an American dollar coin from 1927, but in actual fact it is a cheap chinese copy, or COUNTERFEIT, purchased at a market in Taipei very cheaply. Alongside it were a wide selection of fake world crowns, with a bias toward chinese and US coins. They were not sold as genuine, and any collector worth their salt would not be fooled by the soft detail, light weight, dull ring and badly recut date. However I have seen fakes of this type being sold as genuine both online and in shops. Also, more worrying are the high quality forgeries also coming out of China, I've personally seen some very very good counterfeit US Trade Dollars, and French Indo-China piastres. It's definately a case of buyer beware........
This week we have something a little different. It appears to be an American dollar coin from 1927, but in actual fact it is a cheap chinese copy, or COUNTERFEIT, purchased at a market in Taipei very cheaply. Alongside it were a wide selection of fake world crowns, with a bias toward chinese and US coins. They were not sold as genuine, and any collector worth their salt would not be fooled by the soft detail, light weight, dull ring and badly recut date. However I have seen fakes of this type being sold as genuine both online and in shops. Also, more worrying are the high quality forgeries also coming out of China, I've personally seen some very very good counterfeit US Trade Dollars, and French Indo-China piastres. It's definately a case of buyer beware........
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