Counterfeit World Crowns

[Gary]

I have over the last few months been watching with concern the increasing number of counterfeit crown sized coins being offered for sale on ebay. Here is one seller registered in germany who has no fewer than 7 items running at the moment. These range from hong kong dollars to 1935 crown.

seller

I have also seen real coins of good grades and years being bought by buyers from far easten countries and suspect that the counterfeit problem will get worse. At the moment they are easy to spot and poorly made, probably cast. Even though, these coins are being bought by unsuspecting collectors and I know of one who was dupped and refused a refund even though the seller worked in a well known bank here in germany.

I have only been watching the german ebay, maybe similar coins are being offered on the british site!

Watch out......

[josie]

Thanks gary for the info.

I have several half crown not yet into crown.

May I ask why they chose crown to counterfeit Why not other denomination.?

[scottishmoney]

I wanted to buy up some of this effluence whilst I was in China last Spring, however I could never get them down to a price I was willing to pay. However I bought quite a bit of authentic Chinese paper money, and more modern coins for prices I was willing to pay. They were selling them as fakes, but when I was in Guangzhou unfortunately I was in a high tourist area so maybe they figured I should be more gullible than I was. I got the good deals on the real stuff in Nanchang.