Beware of Chinese counterfeit dollars

[tnt-hunter]

With the recent posting of what looks like Chinese counterfeit coins I remembered I had some coins stashed away the I got in China. My wife and I took a trip to China back in 2014. I bought some US silver dollars while there. The first batch I saw looked good and I was able to get them for what I thought was a good price. I had an old flip phone and no internet connection so I couldn’t check them until we got back to the river boat we were on and the WiFi connection on my iPad. After I looked them up I knew they were counterfeit. I did buy a couple more at a very reduced price just for the variety and the souvenir value.

As we toured around I noticed they were everywhere. So I can only guess how many people got taken in and how many of these people tried to sell once they got home. So be careful what you buy, you might be getting a Chinese counterfeit instead of the real deal.

I’m no expert and people with more knowledge of silver dollars will spot more problems with the coins, but here they are with the things I can see that makes them counterfeit.

These dollars all have In God We Trust and are marked CC for the Carson City mint. In God We Trust did not appear on coins until 1864 when they put it on the 2 cent piece. Also the Carson City mint didn’t operate until 1870 and all these are dated well before that.

The trade dollar is the right year, but on the real one there is a ribbon with LIBERTY on it being held in lady liberty’s hand. It is missing on this one.

The Morgan dollars look good to me. I’m sure there are some irregularities, but I haven’t spotted them. One of them is definitely a counterfeit because the plating has split in several places and the under metal is showing through.

Most of the coins have a stain on them that makes the coins look dirty like they are old. To me the staining does not look right for old silver coins. Also it does not come off using the normal methods of cleaning silver coins, another indicator that these are counterfeit. Beware of coins for sale that could be Chinese counterfeits. Don’t be fooled like I was. It didn’t cost me too much and now I know a lot more than I did then.

Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and keep swingin.

 

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[cudamark]

good on ya, so you of all people should know the arc of recovery, and how for some it has gone beyond a choice.

It was still a choice they made back then to start. It's still a choice now....just a much harder one to make and follow through. People do it though, and recover. I never claimed it was easy, and giving them the means to continue their addiction does them no favors in making that decision. Lack of their drug of choice and an empty belly are much better motivators.

 

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[unclemac]

It was still a choice they made back then to start. It's still a choice now....just a much harder one to make and follow through. People do it though, and recover. I never claimed it was easy, and giving them the means to continue their addiction does them no favors in making that decision. Lack of their drug of choice and an empty belly are much better motivators.

i think it is different for everybody, my own experience suggests to me that for the majority of folk, underlying mental and physical health problems are a big part of it. You can get clean but that does not help the cause in the first place. so... down the road, you fall right back in to it. I have never met an addict that was happy to be one.

 

[cudamark]

Agreed, the mentally ill people need care.....whether they like it or not. If they are incompetent for making their own decisions, it needs to be made for them until they are deemed competent again. Once discovered, they need to be evaluated, and then committed to whatever treatment they need.

 

[unclemac]

yes indeed...and you would think it would be an inexpensive fix .... in the long run. But in the words of the immortal Freddie Mercury... " I want it all, and I want it now"