A question about plate money

[owen]

I have always loved russian coins, and have collected quite a few, recently i ran across this plate money and was curious if there is someone knowledgeable to tell me if this is a fake or not.

Thank you so much for your time.

[ViFi]

16 hours ago, owen said:

I have always loved russian coins, and have collected quite a few, recently i ran across this plate money and was curious if there is someone knowledgeable to tell me if this is a fake or not.

Thank you so much for your time.

Hi! 

I have to disappoint you but this a fake. And rather crude fake. 

I hope you didn't paid too much for it. 

This is how the genuine Novodel looks like for you to compare 

 

[owen]

I have not purchased it, the seller wants 150$ which for a fake seems rather steep. thanks for the confirming what i suspected. 

 

Owen

[ViFi]

1 hour ago, owen said:

I have not purchased it, the seller wants 150$ which for a fake seems rather steep. thanks for the confirming what i suspected. 

 

Owen

Hi

Perfect! 150 $ is too much for the fake. Genuine price idea is between 1000 to 4000 $ depending on condition. 

[alexbq2]

On 1/24/2022 at 11:20 AM, ViFi said:

Hi

Perfect! 150 $ is too much for the fake. Genuine price idea is between 1000 to 4000 $ depending on condition. 

I wouldn't want to own a fake, but I have noticed that for these replicas/fakes of the coins that are not really accessible to an average collector in this case a Novodel maybe costs 1K-4K if you find one, but genuine is more like 10K+) there is a market, and some people are buying them for around $100.