Silver trade dollar with wrong date....

[HiiiQ]

Can someone tell if this coin is a counterfeit or if a mistake was made on the date?

 

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[HiiiQ]

other side..

A friend of mine has it in his family from his great grandfather...

 

[Mackaydon]

Counterfeit:http://www.silver-coins.org/1799_liberty_seated_trade_dollar.html

 

[Coinkid]

Definitely fake. Sorry!


-Paul

 

[Cannonman17]

Not a very good one either I might add...

 

[bradyboy]

what a shame, purtty piece
is that a couple of rust dots on the bottom?
BB

 

[HiiiQ]

what a shame, purtty piece
is that a couple of rust dots on the bottom?
BB

It does seem like rust altough it seems like the coin is actually silver. I would assume that the counterfeits would use some other (cheaper) metal?...

 

[Klaatu]

It is a cheap Chinese counterfeit. The counterfeiters have gotten cavalier and started making fantasy pieces - coins that never existed. If you have a Red Book all you have to do is look up Trade Dollars and find that they were minted beginning in 1873. So if you are offered a Trade Dollar dated 1796 you know it has to be a fake.

 

[djui5]

Not a very good one either I might add...

+1 That's a really bad fake. They didn't make lines that crooked