United States of America

Peterb · December 14, 2015, 08:27:45 PM

Can anyone help in telling me if a United States of America Liberty 1796 is rare or valuable?

trout · December 14, 2015, 08:43:25 PM

Quote from: 'Peterb' pid='82739' dateline='1450087065'Can anyone help in telling me if a United States of America Liberty 1796 is rare or valuable?

:welcome:
To the Forum, Can you post an image of the coin?

Peterb · December 14, 2015, 08:45:37 PM

Been trying to but photo file to large

trout · December 14, 2015, 08:48:17 PM

Quote from: 'Peterb' pid='82741' dateline='1450088137'Been trying to but photo file to large

drop the size down to 600x600 and it will work just fine :good:

serial · December 14, 2015, 09:31:44 PM

Fake
Hope it didn't cost you much

Peterb · December 14, 2015, 09:35:15 PM

Can you please tell me the telling points that it is fake, Thanks

If this is fake, how long have they been around? I found this in my Fathers belongings and he must of had it for a while.

serial · December 14, 2015, 10:16:05 PM

Fake coins of this type have been around for a long time
The coins wear pattern and toning don't look right and the strike is too mushy. What does it weight? Pics on scales would be great

Fulvio · December 14, 2015, 11:59:16 PM

Quote from: 'Peterb' pid='82741' dateline='1450088137'photo file to large

Host the image elsewhere and link to it using IMG and /IMG tags, same as HTML, but with [] brackets instead of <>.

Oh, and here's a bunch of images of real ones:

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=1796+liberty

Goose · December 15, 2015, 09:29:30 AM

I found many (7) errors on the posted (Fake) coin according to the pictures in the U S Red Book.

trout · December 15, 2015, 11:12:38 AM

Sadly I agree that this is a counterfeit coin.
Your father wasn't the first to be fooled by this and I doubt that he will be the last either.
The Classic American coins are heavily counterfeited along with other rare and elusive coins.
The Chinese are blamed for making these but I suspect they are made in the USA as well.
Not only are the people that manufacture these a curse to the collecting community , The people that knowingly distribute these (Normally on eBay) are as bad if not worse :dodgy: