I was contacted by the owner of a scrap recycling station, who said that he had received a silver dollar mold, which was stamped "Yuan Datou" silver dollars during the Republic of China, and asked me how much value I had and whether I could use it to make silver dollars.
Hearing that there is a silver dollar mold, I became interested, and hurriedly asked the boss to take the mold to inspect the goods, because friends in the collection circle know that the silver dollar mold belongs to the state secret equipment, and it is difficult to find the figure of the silver dollar mold in the collection market.
A few days later, the boss brought this silver dollar mold over, the boss said: the silver dollar was received from a middle-aged man, the man said that his grandfather was an employee of the Republic of China Mint, and later because of the war, the mint was chaotic, and the employees were scattered and fled. The boss looked at the mold and was a little old, and felt that he could use it, so he paid a high price to accept it.
After checking, I found that there is indeed a pattern of "Yuan Datou" silver dollar on the mold, but these details are not in place, the workmanship is very rough, and the material of the mold is not special steel, so it can be concluded that this is a modern production of handicraft mold, which was used to deceive and deceive after being labeled as a silver dollar mold by criminals.
In recent years, there have been many cases of counterfeit silver dollar molds being sold, where counterfeiters will make up stories to lure collectors to buy them, and even counterfeiters will promise that the molds can be modified and continue to mint silver dollars, and many unreasonable collectors will pay high prices to buy them.
I told the scrap shop owner that this "silver dollar mold" was a modern counterfeit handicraft, with no collectible value, and no silver dollars could be minted.