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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1013013, member: 19463&quot;]Certainly it is a fake or perhaps one farther - a fantasy since I&#039;m not recognizing what it was intended to copy. We need to remember that producing goods to fool tourists is an honorable profession in many countries and considering that few tourists have any idea what the real thing looks like, &#039;tourist grade&#039; is the name we give to the worst quality fakes.&nbsp;&nbsp; Better fakes go to the collector market to be sold on eBay and at flea markets in Europe and the US.&nbsp; The best go to try to fool real coin dealers and collectors and some even slip through &#039;experts&#039; in museums.&nbsp; We even have reached the point now that the best of fakes with pedigrees are selling for more money than many less thrilling genuine coins.&nbsp; This, however, is a tourist item.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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