I have been given a selection of USA dollars in Thailand I suspect they are Chinese fakes but I cannot tell.
If they are fake is there a market for them or are they worthless as you cannot sell counterfeits on Ebay
below are images of a few of them
I'm no expert on these coins, nor could I tell you for certain they are fakes, but your 4th coin, the 1878 Trade Dollar, doesn't appear in your picture to have a mint mark on the reverse (either S for San Francisco or CC for Carson City). The 1878 without a mint mark (minted in Philadelphia) was a Proof-only issue, and only 900 were minted. From my untrained eye, your coin does not look like a proof coin, so I am suspicious.
As for a market for known fakes, I suppose there are those who collect them, or even use them to fill spaces in collections they would otherwise never fill. If they are silver, you could always sell them as scrap (but I'd make sure they are fakes first).
I do not know where to go to find out if they are fakes or not
Ray
I think I can help you with that, remember that there are coins dealers in almost ever country, go to a 'pawn shop' or 'stamp shop' to have them test if 1. It is silver 2. If its real (to be honest I really doubt those are real)
But they have a special chemical that tests for silver, you could also test liver using density. https://en.numista.com/numisdoc/measure-a-coin-s-density-27.html
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are the weights correct would be a first step id imagine do you have a scale morgan dollars are quite common but the seated liberty are much rarer to find and you have 2 of them if so real great find ive gone to 5 or 6 coin shops and only seen 1 or 2 in them another way you could tell by sending them in to be graded then if there counterfeit theyll get stamped copy on them
Doesn't mean it's silver. From what it looks like, the engravings are too sharp, yet too crude. The Morgan silver really ticks me off.
Often times, Chinese counterfeit silver coins have a thicker rim than they should, just in case it's off struck. Do you see a thick rim on the coin.
I've had a good (and really terrible) experience with Chinese fakes, and honestly these are fake. Don't buy US coins from Asia because they are almost always fake and readily available.
Kenny
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