Fake Morgan

I have a Counterfeit 1888-S Morgan Silver dollar. Is there a catalogue for Counterfeit or fake coins. I have been to the Numisdoc (encyclopedia) Modern fakes which is helpful and interesting but it is not a catalogue where I can record coins. I have several other counterfeits that I have collected, some of which are in the Numisdoc (encyclopedia) Modern fakes. Some of the counterfeits I do have are not in the Numisdoc (encyclopedia) Modern fakes and I do not know the procedure to enter them into that part of the website.

Hi Kevin

This link should give you access to a small list of fake coins https://en.numista.com/numisdoc/modern-fakes-151.html I did wrote about some coins similar to yours long time ago, but I have not find some free time to list them properly.

You could enter them as a regular coin and then make a note that you have a counterfeit in the notes.

a fake coin is not a coin - ipso facto.
so it does not belongs in the catalogue of coins.
In know some people collect counterfeit coins, but collecting counterfeit coins is a different activity than collecting coins...
I am reminded of a story of starving people during the war, find pictures of food in old magazines and cut out the pictures to pretend they have food for dinner, and lick the pictures and imagine they eat the food...

Cita: "Mr. Midnight"​I am reminded of a story of starving people during the war, find pictures of food in old magazines and cut out the pictures to pretend they have food for dinner, and lick the pictures and imagine they eat the food...

​Sounds a bit like madness to me.... People during WWII in the UK used to have "mock" recipes where they took cheap available foods like sausage meat or Spam and pretended it was duck or crab meat instead.

But yes, I agree that fakes shouldn't be listed; in fact whenever I see someone listing a modern fake coin as the real one but with a personal comment "fake" I think it's a little self-deceiving, not to mention messing up your collection statistics and the page's NRI; we should allow listing counterfeits in the exonumia section though.

Cita: "Mr. Midnight"​​ In know some people collect counterfeit coins, but collecting counterfeit coins is a different activity than collecting coins...
​I am reminded of a story of starving people during the war, find pictures of food in old magazines and cut out the pictures to pretend they have food for dinner, and lick the pictures and imagine they eat the food...

​I don't know, a lot of the fakes show a good deal of ingenuity and artistic talent to create, and some of the contemporary counterfeits even sell for more than the original coin. I can see why some people collect them, the contemporary ones would definitely be lower mintage than the original and harder to obtain.

P.S. - to add your coins to the Numisdoc article on modern fakes, I assume you contact one of the team members who are listed as a Numisdoc administrator with all the relevant information from the blank form at the bottom of the article. From what I can see, it looks like the only team members are Jarcek and Pejonet

https://en.numista.com/team.php