Fake 14ct half sovereigns

[ilovesilverireallydo]

Saw a bunch of these coming in this week. All dates and monarchs. Most range from 14-17ct but all underweight. 
 

[OriginalS]

Looks cast to my untrained eye

[dicker]

Hi - are you able to tell roughly where they are from?  Location?

 

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Dicker

[ilovesilverireallydo]

8 hours ago, dicker said:

Hi - are you able to tell roughly where they are from?  Location?

 

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Dicker

No idea. Not your typical Arabic copies. These look like they were intended to dupe novices

[Airhead]

2 minutes ago, ilovesilverireallydo said:

No idea. Not your typical Arabic copies. These look like they were intended to dupe novices

I better take care then. 

[47Ag79Au78Pt]

That’s worrying!  Did you Work out they were fake just by weighing them because I’d like to check mine. 

[alemild]

comparison

[ilovesilverireallydo]

On 06/08/2020 at 13:51, 47Ag79Au78Pt said:

That’s worrying!  Did you Work out they were fake just by weighing them because I’d like to check mine. 

The fact that they were missing the bp on the back tipped me off. But weights a good indicator. 

[Zhorro]

54 minutes ago, ilovesilverireallydo said:

The fact that they were missing the bp on the back tipped me off. But weights a good indicator. 

Genuine 1897 half sovereigns do not have "BP" next to the date.

Regarding the picture above, 1897 M half sovereigns do not exist according to Marsh (p.145).

[ilovesilverireallydo]

42 minutes ago, Zhorro said:

Genuine 1897 half sovereigns do not have "BP" next to the date.

Regarding the picture above, 1897 M half sovereigns do not exist according to Marsh (p.145).

Hah yes. I must have had a senior moment. Good I did though lol sifiting through 200 halves can drive one crazy