Hello,

I bought these Gold Coins on Sprue on Bricklink a few weeks ago. I need your opinion, to know if they are real LEGO coins or not.
I didn't have these coins since 20 years, but I do remember that both sides were embossed. Looking at pictures on Internet, I never find the same "error" as on my purchased coins.

The numbers are not embossed. The numbers are printed with a small shadow.
The LEGO logo is embossed but I think it looks bigger than the coins I can see in pictures.

Coins picture from LEGO instructions

So, are these copies or a modified (and less pretty) version of the real coins?

 

 

Edited May 20, 20231 yr by Back to the Brick

The numbers should be raised if like the old ones, much like the LEGO logo on the backs. Are you saying the number sides are completely flat with the number printed (with ink shadows) instead of moulded?

Yes, the number sides are completely flat with the number printed.

My copies of the coins on sprue have the numbers raised like the LEGO side.  Also there is no "14" on the center of the sprue on the LEGO side.  I got them back in 2009 with the Pirate Loot Island set.

 

 

I contacted the seller and he told me that he purchased these parts years ago in bulk from a German Bricklink seller who had bought them himself in the German Legoland parts store.
He also write that they could be "second choice parts and therefore were sold cheap in the Legoland store or perhaps these were used in only a few sets, merely a variation".

I'm not sure about his answer. LEGO doesn't make such cheap products and if it was a variation they wouldn't change the size of the logo.
I'll try to get a refund. Thank you for your help!

 

Edited May 20, 20231 yr by Back to the Brick

While there are plenty of LEGO knock-offs around, it's very rare that those parts actually features the word "LEGO"

For me it looks like a defect mould and it's not out of the question they could be rejects that unfortunally ended up in a LEGOland store

However, parts like that are normally melted/destroyed by TLG

For decades there have been massive amounts of LEGO parts available to and from german BL sellers not really seen in other parts of the world

TLG works in mysterious ways

Old thread but I got similar coins when ordered a bunch from eBay. IMHO those are fakes, I complained to the seller and they refunded me