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Message:: [QUOTE="Lucky Cuss, post: 1629454, member: 44086"]Fascinating thread, with some good detective work to resolve the question. Rob's link detailing this scam artist's activities (post #163) raises an additional question, though. If he's hawking other "rare Morgans", then it's logical to presume that they're also being made up from more common examples, by adding, removing, or changing mintmarks and/or dates. In any event, the "1889-CC" that this discussion started out with, while detectable as a fake by a professional grader, is certainly not so sloppily done as to be obvious (it fooled the dealer Rob took along with him, after all). But if the seller isn't doing this work, then what's the souce of this material? Is he hooked up with someone here in this country plying his nefarious craft, or are they being brought in from a foreign country (which could be almost anywhere)? I think eventually the federal authorities might end up getting in on this - there're already multiple states involved, U.S. coinage is being altered with the intent to deceive, and being that contact is being established via the internet, there's an element of wire fraud.[/QUOTE]