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<p>[QUOTE="Lueds, post: 6443276, member: 109500"]Mike, the Chinese counterfeiters have been flooding the market with fakes of all sorts, common and not so common coins. They 'artificially' wear and tone the coins and sell to suckers for a super cheap price. One Fb group I'm in specialises in ferreting out the fakes on eBay and the likes, getting the coin sales shut down and working with The Anti Counterfeiting Task Force and Secret Service to get these sellers stopped. Unfortunately too many uneducated people buy these fakes, supporting the fakirs.... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The ACEF and Secret Service recently (past 12 months I think) closed down a Texas based group that were selling counterfeits through the small Auction Houses and making an absolute killing. The cost to make the coins is pennies in the dollar, so the profit margin for the counterfeiters is massive[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lueds, post: 6443276, member: 109500"]Mike, the Chinese counterfeiters have been flooding the market with fakes of all sorts, common and not so common coins. They 'artificially' wear and tone the coins and sell to suckers for a super cheap price. One Fb group I'm in specialises in ferreting out the fakes on eBay and the likes, getting the coin sales shut down and working with The Anti Counterfeiting Task Force and Secret Service to get these sellers stopped. Unfortunately too many uneducated people buy these fakes, supporting the fakirs.... :( The ACEF and Secret Service recently (past 12 months I think) closed down a Texas based group that were selling counterfeits through the small Auction Houses and making an absolute killing. The cost to make the coins is pennies in the dollar, so the profit margin for the counterfeiters is massive[/QUOTE]
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