This one is quite a story.
KT is quite sentimental about His Royal Mother and decided He would honor her Royal Memory by purchasing a silver coin of her birth year - 1906.
So off His Majesty goes to eBay, searching 1906 silver dollar, expecting to find a Barber perhaps, but finds only 1906 Barber halves for sale. So He searches for 1906 silver coin. Up pops this coin!
It is late at night so KT bid on it...$30 + 4.95 shipping. KT goes to bed happy in his thought that He might win this coin. Next day, He gets notification to pay because He won! So He uses His Royal Paypal account.
The next day, KT becomes very curious about this "coin", thinking perhaps it was a US Special Minted Dollar. So He searches online to find out what the deal is....to his surprise...several sites list this "coin" as Chinese fake and with a 0 $ value!
So KT contacts the seller and requests the auction be cancelled. After 24 hours, KT again sends the same message to the seller, with the added threat to report him for selling fake silver Chinese dollars without listing that they were fakes. Still no answer, so KT turns him in to the eBay police who state that if His Majesty does not hear from him in 3 days, they will take action and refund my purchase price plus shipping. They must have contacted him, because the next day, I get notification from him and Paypal that my money was refunded!
Here is the deal. This coin is silver of unknown purity, a Chinese copy after the US Mint's Commemorative 1986 Proof Dollar of the Statue of Liberty.
There are a couple of ways to tell it is a fake...the cast they made of the coin, particularly the date was poor quality and they must have hand stamped a 0 into the date so it came out 1906, not 1986. Second, the real coins were proofs and this coin shows no evidence of ever being stamped in a proof quality die. Notice also the I and the T in the slogan In God We Trust are very weak. No proof would pass such a test by the Mint! Examine the pictures below.
It turns out it is one of the better documented fakes. What surprised me is the fellow shipped it to me anyway so that KT has an example of a fake Chinese US silver dollar! Oh, the other thing is, when they stamped it, the reverse is exactly 180 degrees out of sink. When you view any US Mint coin, with the head at the top, you can rotate it vertically to see the back and it will be in proper orientation to read inscriptions, etc. But this "coin", if you do that, the back side is upside down!
Pretty poor fakers, if you ask KT! Anyway, His Majesty wanted to use this fake to educate someone who has not studied silver coins. So despite the coin experts saying it has 0 value, it is silver and it has some educational value! Enjoy the pictures!
KT is quite sentimental about His Royal Mother and decided He would honor her Royal Memory by purchasing a silver coin of her birth year - 1906.
So off His Majesty goes to eBay, searching 1906 silver dollar, expecting to find a Barber perhaps, but finds only 1906 Barber halves for sale. So He searches for 1906 silver coin. Up pops this coin!
It is late at night so KT bid on it...$30 + 4.95 shipping. KT goes to bed happy in his thought that He might win this coin. Next day, He gets notification to pay because He won! So He uses His Royal Paypal account.
The next day, KT becomes very curious about this "coin", thinking perhaps it was a US Special Minted Dollar. So He searches online to find out what the deal is....to his surprise...several sites list this "coin" as Chinese fake and with a 0 $ value!
So KT contacts the seller and requests the auction be cancelled. After 24 hours, KT again sends the same message to the seller, with the added threat to report him for selling fake silver Chinese dollars without listing that they were fakes. Still no answer, so KT turns him in to the eBay police who state that if His Majesty does not hear from him in 3 days, they will take action and refund my purchase price plus shipping. They must have contacted him, because the next day, I get notification from him and Paypal that my money was refunded!
Here is the deal. This coin is silver of unknown purity, a Chinese copy after the US Mint's Commemorative 1986 Proof Dollar of the Statue of Liberty.
There are a couple of ways to tell it is a fake...the cast they made of the coin, particularly the date was poor quality and they must have hand stamped a 0 into the date so it came out 1906, not 1986. Second, the real coins were proofs and this coin shows no evidence of ever being stamped in a proof quality die. Notice also the I and the T in the slogan In God We Trust are very weak. No proof would pass such a test by the Mint! Examine the pictures below.
It turns out it is one of the better documented fakes. What surprised me is the fellow shipped it to me anyway so that KT has an example of a fake Chinese US silver dollar! Oh, the other thing is, when they stamped it, the reverse is exactly 180 degrees out of sink. When you view any US Mint coin, with the head at the top, you can rotate it vertically to see the back and it will be in proper orientation to read inscriptions, etc. But this "coin", if you do that, the back side is upside down!
Pretty poor fakers, if you ask KT! Anyway, His Majesty wanted to use this fake to educate someone who has not studied silver coins. So despite the coin experts saying it has 0 value, it is silver and it has some educational value! Enjoy the pictures!