If we talk about coins that were used to be common in circulation, but scarce today; we usually interpret as melting almost all of coins, war, using them as rituals, and the like.
But nowadays, those FAKE coin and banknote collectors are rampant on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and other social media websites especially in India. In the Philippines, a type of coin became scarce due to fake collectors on social media that used to be common in circulation, just like those other types of the coin do; and that is the ₱20 coin from the Philippines with upper mintmark.
You can see the upper mintmark of the coin that became scarce due to fake collectors here, whereas all other types of the same coin (i.e. lower mintmark) still common in circulation as of 5 June 2023.
Even my channel spoke to this problem that had been in place since those fake collectors uploaded those videos. My video here (no subtitles in English, sorry) spoke about the clarification of those mintmark alignments that were legitimately issued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and became the most viral in my channel.
What about the examples of fake collectors who proclaimed that the ₱20 coin with upper mintmark as expensive, rare, and had an error?
Well, the videos about these are from:
• COINS VALUE TV (from the Philippines, proclaimed that type of coin as rare and could be bought for ~US$6700)
• https://youtu.be/HmogcXz4DV4 (COINS LOVER PH, also from my country; saw that type of coin as expensive online, but in turn was became influential to people and sell them to that collector and other similar ones in order to get instant money)
And others do not even research and proclaim that the type of coin could cost up to US$22,000. That is it. I hope you learned something about this one today. Thank you.
