By Jack D. Younger, Early American Coppers (EAC), and the Darkish Facet Group ……
In a earlier CoinWeek article, I reviewed the present glut of counterfeit 1881-CC “Morgans” in faux PCGS holders and the Chinese language firm promoting them. The next is a picture of one of many preliminary fakes I noticed and a real instance as compared; PCGS “deactivated” the cert after this one was reported.
I notice within the picture a few pick-up factors for the dangerous holders: using “Morgan” on the dangerous label (PCGS solely used that designation on 1921-P Morgan {Dollars} to distinguish them from 1921 Peace {Dollars}), the shortage of the PCGS emblem within the entrance decrease proper nook, and a nonsense barcode that doesn’t scan.
In addition to the holder, the coin is dangerous (as beforehand mentioned), and the fraudsters proceed to make use of totally different real PCGS cert numbers to maintain their product “contemporary”.
Now to the star of this Enjoyable With Fakes episode, a “new” 1794 silver greenback from the identical dangerous grasp supply because the dangerous slabbed 1881-CCs and listed on eBay.
And right here’s the vendor’s description together with cert quantity; the “Report this merchandise” is highlighted as a result of I reported it via the usual eBay course of…
Truly, a fairly poor counterfeit if you examine it to a real instance.
The date is dangerous in addition to the profile and different particulars. My buddy and fellow counterfeit sleuth Jack Riley discovered an identical Gallery Mint instance, and these have been recognized to be copied with out “COPY” on them by the counterfeiters.
So, the primary “twist” of this story: the web PCGS cert for the quantity on the label after all has no picture to assist, however the denomination is famous:
A 1794 half greenback! Looking out the net for the real coin turned this up:
So, can there be another twists you might ask? Effectively, this is a Enjoyable With Fakes article!
Going via my picture archive and one other previous CoinWeek article (these appear to all be intertwined), I discover this instance:
Wow! Now this cert quantity and dangerous not-PCGS slab accommodates a counterfeit 1794 half greenback.
The previous CoinWeek Enjoyable With Fakes article on the household of 1794 half greenback counterfeits may be discovered right here for reference. From that article, the “1794” half is predicated on 1795 O-119!
Happily, each ‘Bay listings have been eliminated with no sale – however absolutely we are going to see them once more.
As I’ve famous in previous articles, the counterfeiters are clearly not numismatists, which actually helps us. Ought to they ever rent the appropriate people to supervise their “product”, nonetheless…
Thus one other Enjoyable With Fakes episode involves its finish. Once more, this might not be potential with out the assist and recommendation of a military of family and friends.
Greatest as At all times,
—Jack
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