Seeing this just makes me want to vomit

 Sites like this should be forbidden and shut down, this just makes me angry.
http://www.soviet-power.com/product.php?offset=30&pagenum=2&all=117&cat=33

I agree 100%

You made my day. apuking wants "to vomit".    Cracked me up.

Hey, what's wrong with this site?    Is it because all coins are fakes or something else?

Yeah all their coins are 100% fakes. I see all the Russian coins that I always find on eBay.

There isn't really anything we can do about this kind of scam.

You could start by editing the hyperlink before this crap starts showing up in Numista swap lists.

These bastards don't need any free advertising.

How about this:  http://www.antiquanova.com/  I find their products very interesting, although I never bought any. There is also another similar company from Poland which mints similar coins, but mostly ancient Russian Empire ones, had seen it before on Ebay, but can't find it again. All of their items sell, and many with high prices....

As a collector I wouldn't rule out the fact of getting one of these nice coins to fill the hole of a couple thousand dollar original coin. And I am sure many of you here would also. For example a have a replica of this:  https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces24272.html  as I can't afford the original, and my main collection focus is collecting Albanian coins.  

But I am not saying to make a whole collection of replicas...

Well I guess everyone has his own point of view on this. Personally for me there is nothing worse than fake coins or replicas. So far it has happened 3 times to me that I unintentionally bought a copy through Ebay and once on an antique fair, so when I found out they where copys I melted them down and made fishing weights out of them .

Quote: apukingWell I guess everyone has his own point of view on this. Personally for me there is nothing worse than fake coins or replicas. So far it has happened 3 times to me that I unintentionally bought a copy through Ebay and once on an antique fair, so when I found out they where copys I melted them down and made fishing weights out of them .

I approve wholeheartedly.

Dont worry, I'll take care of it. Consider the site blacklisted.

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Oh stop, I took care of it :)

There are dozens of similar sites which have been offering Chinese knock-offs for many years.

The worst offender is The Big Tree Coin Company which has a modern, purpose-built factory and churns out tens of thousands of fakes every year. They used to sell them directly on eBay but they got closed down. Now they use 3rd party wholesalers or sell directly to the unscrupulous.

It used to be nothing more than an irritation as the quality was so poor you could spot the cast fakes at 100 paces. Not any more. They still make the cheap stuff of course but they offer fakes at various prices, dependent on the quality.

Some years ago, a vapid, touchy-feely "we are the world" empty-headed US Treasury official decided it would help to foster good relations with the People's Republic of China by donating obsolete US mint presses and dies to the government. They gleefully accepted and promptly sold them to Big Tree who are now making undetectable copies of rare coins using common date coins as blank planchets and the original presses and dies.

These fakes are so good that most dealers can't spot them.

http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/chinese-fakes-ever-more-deceptive

What can you do? Quite a lot actually.

First, let's stop pussyfooting around and ostracise those collectors trying to pass these off for a quick buck. There have been people offering fakes for sale on this very forum and many members clamouring to get them. You really want to trade your coins with someone like that?

Stop buying Chinese products until they start to meet their obligations and shut down the thousands of factories like Big Tree who produce replicas. It's all cheap shoddy crap anyway.

Report any individuals or dealers selling fakes to the Secret Service (not the Treasury... I know it doesn't make sense to me either). Once their stock gets confiscated a few times their profits will shrink to the point it's not worthwhile. Same for unscrupulous collectors, let them deal with the men in sunglasses and dark suits a few times, have their entire collection taken away from them and maybe they will quit.

I will say publically that anyone offering fakes to me is going to be named and shamed and then reported.

Time for another outing of the Iron Man suit?

thank you sir phil

3rd row... look at the fake Danzig coin...

the desc fails so hard.

Danzig Free City 2 Gulden 1923 silver coin
 2 Gulden rare Dutch coin with ship, made of silver. Diameter 25mm, weight 1...

Dutch coin? wtf man, u labeled it as Danzig...

Never buy coins from the Big Tree Coin Company:

http://www.jinghuashei.com/index.html

Lol, Chinese company... fulla fakes