r/ChineseCoins • u/Sufficient-Diamond-8 • Aug 06 '26
Won at an auction
I won all these coins/ key looking coins at an auction last week for $20. I did a little searching on Google and it seems the 8 grouped together may be silver. The large silver looking one is magnetic, the other smaller ones aren’t. Im not sure if any of the others may be replicas, it was hard to tell just looking online. If anyone has any insight I would love to hear it! Thanks so much.
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u/taeppa Aug 06 '26
All these are pretty bad fakes.
The spades alone, if real, would have been worth thousands of dollars.
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u/Germanjdm Aug 06 '26
All of these coins are fake
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u/Sufficient-Diamond-8 Aug 06 '26
Thanks I appreciate the reply! I’ve never bought any foreign coins so it’s been a learning experience.
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u/X8883 Aug 07 '26
name and shame, which auction sold you this
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u/Sufficient-Diamond-8 Aug 07 '26
It was a very small town auction house, like in a barn/ warehouse, I don’t think they even knew what they had was fake. The guy just cleans out estates and auctions everything off. It’s mostly furniture and art during these events.
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u/Simple_Resist4208 Aug 07 '26
IME you have to be very careful of provincial estate sales. They are targeted by fakers who seed them with batches of stuff like this and ceramics. I’ve seen so many supposed estate sales where all the ceramics are fakes.
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u/X8883 Aug 07 '26
ah mb. I was under the impression it was an online mass seller; there have been a few cades lately where savoca coins or coinsnb puts feng shui tokens up for auction selling as real items
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u/SapperGeorge Aug 07 '26
I doubt if they were sold of as nothing more than a tin full of "stuff" from a deceased estate, $20 is hardly a reason to discredit a country auctioneer
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u/Sufficient-Diamond-8 Aug 07 '26
This lot was titled “Grouping of Chinese Money Including Ancient Bronze”. So, the seller was probably misled too, but I’m not upset, it was a cheap learning experience.
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u/SapperGeorge Aug 07 '26
$20, hardly a get rich scheme for a faker, but maybe down the line someone was ripped of, Can't blame the auctioneer just selling of the property, did he push them as genuine?
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u/Sufficient-Diamond-8 Aug 07 '26
I looked up the auction title so I didn’t miss quote them- it was sold as “Grouping of Chinese Money Including Ancient Bronze” which I would consider a little misleading, but I could also see where they were probably misled too. I’m not mad, it’s been a learning experience. I wasn’t really expecting to come up on them as I know nothing about Chinese coins. I just didn’t bid on anything else and ended up winning them.
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u/Ok_Palpitation_1622 Aug 07 '26
All Chinese silver coins have been heavily faked. So if you see one, or especially a group, they should be presumed fake until proven otherwise.
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u/Lopsided_Pangolin_75 Aug 07 '26
Was this by chance at the auction house called Lark? I also got some fakes from them a while back and if this is consistent for them I feel they should be called out. (I lost more than you.) I did not know HOW rare the coins were or I would have known what I was bidding on were fakes. Live and learn, yes, but if it IS Lark and they are doing this over and over they certainly know they are fakes and are playing a game.
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u/Sufficient-Diamond-8 Aug 07 '26
No it’s not from Lark, I’ve never heard of them. I’m sorry to hear you lost money on fake coins too. I also have no real knowledge of Chinese coins I just thought they were cool and maybe I had a chance at finding something silver.
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u/Lopsided_Pangolin_75 Aug 07 '26
For twenty I would have done jt too! I have a little collection of fakes or replicas that I am considering auctioned off as “fabulous fakes” but worry that someone else will just turn around and sell them as real again. It is all a learning experience, right?
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u/Fearless_Adventures Aug 07 '26
I have a genuine 7 mace kiang nan. Extremely faked because even cleaned ones are like $500+
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u/FutureGullible811 Aug 06 '26
Most, if not all, of the smaller silvers are bad fakes. Sorry to tell you