Fake silver Chinese numis on ebay

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  1. 1for1

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    1for1, Dec 8, 2013
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    Bought this on ebay, weighs 18g instead of 25g :)

    I still don't understand how a coin like that which is not a scarce date could have had any interest to be faked ?

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    Kam, Mar 24, 2014
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    Perhaps it's a contemporary counterfeit made to pass off as real money. But more likely it's just a coin made for the tourist trade.
     
    thepurplepenny, Mar 24, 2014
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    1for1 Well-Known Member

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    Isn't it a case of tracking down the die so they can restrike them? I see lots of common date fakes and just assumed it was based on the availability of dies.. i have seen many china coin dies available on ebay (presumably dies that had been used to strike many fakes:?)
     
    1for1, Mar 25, 2014
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    Is it magnetic? many 18g fakes for some reason, like this one.
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    btw libeftad is not the ebay misspelling/bargain you are looking for.
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    S. Ohno, Mar 27, 2014
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    1for1, Jun 13, 2014
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    you have to also take into account that it is possible that this coin was made counterfeit 150 years ago and is not new.
    Counterfeiting is not new, so you may have a very old counterfeit, which would have passed in the day for the real thing
     
    Torcan, Jun 13, 2014
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    serial, Sep 5, 2014
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    1for1, Sep 7, 2014
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