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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1862293, member: 19463&quot;]I know most of you believe I take this hobby too seriously but it really bothers me when we fail to make an effort to back up what we say when we yell &#039;fire&#039; in a theater.&nbsp; In this case I certainly agree that Vlaha&#039;s coin is a fake and that Reid posted it on his huge set of pages outing fake and replica Alexanders.&nbsp; Lets give the link so others can benefit from it:</p><p><a href="http://alexanderthegreatcoins.reidgold.com/modern_replicas2.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://alexanderthegreatcoins.reidgold.com/modern_replicas2.html" rel="nofollow">http://alexanderthegreatcoins.reidgold.com/modern_replicas2.html</a></p><p>3/4 down the page</p><p>I&#039;m not sure why but Reid separated his fakes into groups so you also have to look here:</p><p><a href="http://alexanderthegreatcoins.reidgold.com/modern_forgeries.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://alexanderthegreatcoins.reidgold.com/modern_forgeries.html" rel="nofollow">http://alexanderthegreatcoins.reidgold.com/modern_forgeries.html</a></p><p>True some were made not to fool but we commonly see &#039;honest&#039; replicas re-purposed into fakes of&nbsp; deceptive intent.&nbsp;&nbsp; Hardly a month goes by that I don&#039;t see an obvious fake &#039;grandpa found in the war&#039; or &#039;bought from the guy that found it&#039;.&nbsp; There are certainly places that have at least a 70% fake rate but they are not online.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure I have some fakes and I&#039;m sure there are fakes online at any given moment but 70% is very high.&nbsp; We can not rely on lists of known fakes (including Reid&#039;s excellent one) since the fakers are working overtime to make new junk every day.&nbsp;&nbsp; Fortunately, most fakes are really bad and easily seen to be suspicious.&nbsp; If you are suspicious, just walk away.&nbsp; In all honesty, I see another coin on this page that I would not buy just from gut feeling but I have not been able to find it listed yet so I&#039;m not ready to point the evil finger at it yet.&nbsp; There are coins I buy and coins I don&#039;t.&nbsp; There are certain fakes and coins I&#039;d be extremely surprised to find were fake.&nbsp; It is now a bigger part of the hobby than it was a decade to a couple centuries ago.&nbsp; That is why we suggest buying from reputable dealers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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