Is this a fake/copy? Underweight sovereign.

[mythar]

Recently purchased some sovereigns from a local auction house. When I went to check them found that this one weighed only 7.33g as opposed to the others which were 8.00g.
Size and thickness appears similar but I lack the precision tools to measure.
What do I have? Fake? Jewellers Copy?

 

[W Davis & Son]

Looks fake and at 7.33gm has to be fake.
And a jewellers copy means fake also.

 

[Captain Kookaburra]

Looks like a cast copy from the photo.

 

[Brzt]

Sovereign are my gold coin of choice and that looks fake to me from the photo.

 

[Belvedere]

I have some experience in casting metals and that looks cast to me. Also, side by side with some genuine sovereigns - difference in texture is very telling. Where to from here for you?

 

[mythar]

Its not a big deal. I got a reasonable price even if its a copy. I suppose i'll take it to a gold buyers company and let them test it for me.
Thanks for the replies. I'll be more careful next time.

 

[spannermonkey]

Its not a big deal. I got a reasonable price even if its a copy. I suppose i'll take it to a gold buyers company and let them test it for me.
Thanks for the replies. I'll be more careful next time.

Why not just go back to the auction house & get your $ back ?

 

[Stax]

OOF !

Fake.
Definitely.

(sorry, the one thing we collectors all dread)

 

[Miloman]

Its not a big deal. I got a reasonable price even if its a copy. I suppose i'll take it to a gold buyers company and let them test it for me.
Thanks for the replies. I'll be more careful next time.

Why not just go back to the auction house & get your $ back ?

I'm pretty sure...

If you bought it you own it.

Unless it was purchased over phone bidding but if you were bidding in the flesh and had the expectation of viewing it first then no recourse.

Could be a copper cast slug with plating on it, as it's too light. Gold content on a 22c would be minimal. Bad fake.

 

[spannermonkey]

Its not a big deal. I got a reasonable price even if its a copy. I suppose i'll take it to a gold buyers company and let them test it for me.
Thanks for the replies. I'll be more careful next time.

Why not just go back to the auction house & get your $ back ?

I'm pretty sure...

If you bought it you own it.

Unless it was purchased over phone bidding but if you were bidding in the flesh and had the expectation of viewing it first then no recourse.

Could be a copper cast slug with plating on it, as it's too light. Gold content on a 22c would be minimal. Bad fake.

NOT if it doesn't fit the description , the auction houses I've been to , have a 7 day money back policy

 

[Miloman]

Why not just go back to the auction house & get your $ back ?

I'm pretty sure...

If you bought it you own it.

Unless it was purchased over phone bidding but if you were bidding in the flesh and had the expectation of viewing it first then no recourse.

Could be a copper cast slug with plating on it, as it's too light. Gold content on a 22c would be minimal. Bad fake.

NOT if it doesn't fit the description , the auction houses I've been to , have a 7 day money back policy

Well then unless it could be sold for more then I'd definitely return it.

Problem in selling it, is that you could get done once they find out it's fake. And then it's probably a slug plated. So safest thing is to return it promptly.

 

[scone]

thats a shocking looking coin in the pic.
Looks like the kids have coloured it in with a gold marker pen, kinda like we used to do with 10c pieces at the school canteen

 

[Stevo]

Continue to do what has been done with this coin over the last 100 years - flog it off to the next unsuspecting sod as a legit sov.

Anyone who visually buys a coin looking like that deserves to get burnt... For a sovereign it looks horrible and is underweight. Do people not check these things out before they buy them?

 

[Stevo]

Or a deceptive seller puts a photo up on ebay of a real 1905 sovereign and then in the post a copy turns up.

Don't be giving the OP ideas on how to get rid of his fake sovereign!

Unfortunately mythar didn't buy the coin on eBay, or he would have been able to return the fake coin to the seller or get a refund by opening a dispute.

 

[pragmatist]

I'm a novice yet could tell its a fake, the pitting on the surface is appalling.
Sorry you lost money on it.