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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 37388, member: 283&quot;]That is a very easy one to answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>An original&nbsp; silver coin may have a `silver content value&#039; and very little collector value either due to it being relatively common or badly damaged...or both.</p><p><br /></p><p>However some coins have significant collector value, sometimes many orders of magnitude greater than their `silver content value&#039;. Rare coins are the target of counterfeiters because the genuine article IS valuable, scarce and in demand. If they can turn a bit of silver worth $1 into say $150 or more then you can readily see that it is worth their while. It is not worth their while to try and get a collector to accept a pasty bit of metal as being the real McCoy because it simply won&#039;t work with specialist collectors. Some counterfeits have been so good that they have remained in collections for years undiscovered until recently. No doubt there are others yet to be discovered too.</p><p><br /></p><p>The rarer the coin the more of a target it is to the counterfeiter. No expense spared in the efforts to deceive. That is the simplicity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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