Morgan Silver dollar Genuine?

[Junior]

Has a coppery or brass core. Either way, not a genuine.

[Happypanda88]

This will be a lesson for new collectors. I am sure we have all been there, buying a coin what we thought was a good price then discover later on it was a fake. 

Copies of the morgan dollar are widely available on AliExpress.com

The traders on there doesn't pretend they are selling the real thing. The problem comes when punters buys them from the site and tries to sell them on as genuine to unsuspected coin collectors for a nice profit.

https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20220123211420&SearchText=morgan+dollar

 

I still have the fakes i bought some 40 years ago as a reminder ! 😉

[dicker]

On 24/01/2022 at 05:45, Happypanda88 said:

This will be a lesson for new collectors. I am sure we have all been there, buying a coin what we thought was a good price then discover later on it was a fake. 

Copies of the morgan dollar are widely available on AliExpress.com

The traders on there doesn't pretend they are selling the real thing. The problem comes when punters buys them from the site and tries to sell them on as genuine to unsuspected coin collectors for a nice profit.

https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20220123211420&SearchText=morgan+dollar

 

I still have the fakes i bought some 40 years ago as a reminder ! 😉

That is not surprising. The further back I go in looking at Morgan’s and Peace Dollars, the more I have realised we’re counterfeit much earlier than I thought.  
 

I am sure I am naïve, but I have found reference to high quality counterfeits in the 1950’s and I am sure the exist before this.  It my be the reference material It am looking at (old, photocopied / scanned) but the earlier counterfeits are significantly better than the current glut of Chinese(?) counterfeits.

[Centauri167]

Fake money is made I guess a little bit later than the real was introduced. In history you read a lot about fake coins and also how it was used in Wars to destroy the economy of other nations, and I'm not only speaking about WW II. 

I think that just as with so many things, in the past the quality was better of fake's because it was more difficult to make them so you had to be good in it while now you just order Chinese rubbish from the internet ...