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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 7566771, member: 112"]Oh I get it, but it doesn't stop them from doing it though. I've seen fakes of just about of every them at one time or another. Ya see, I collected original Mint Sets and Proof Sets for 40 years. I would spend hours at a coin show searching through thousands of sets looking for the nice ones, at every dealer's table that had any - every show I ever went to. There's lot of fakes out there. Their reasoning is quite simple actually, ya see, counterfeiters know that a whole lot of people think that way. And when somebody thinks that way, it makes it highly unlikely that they would even consider that the item might be a fake. And that makes it very, very easy to sell ! The same reasoning is what explains why so many Lincoln cents are counterfeited. And I'm not talking about varieties and errors, I'm talking about spending change, pocket change. They make their money on volume, not individual transactions - arguably the most common business model there is in business. It is also why the lowly $1 dollar bill is the single most commonly counterfeited note there is - nobody ever even gives a thought to accepting a $1 dollar bill, they simply accept them. And that, is what makes it very profitable ! Probably their single most profitable methodology is making the fake sets and selling them as "unopened sets". Those have been sold by the tens of thousands on ebay - and every other website you can think of ![/QUOTE]