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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 4964595, member: 77814&quot;]Aliexpress (and other chinese based websites). Before the US cracked down that marketplace was littered with &quot;rare and expensive&quot; US coins.</p><p>Morgans, ASEs, AGEs, Peace Dollars, 1955 DD cents .. you name it.&nbsp; You could buy them by the dozen for only a few dollars.&nbsp; Of course, all fake. The early fakes were more easily recognizable.&nbsp; But they improved and made much, much better fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a lot of threads on there about such good fakes.&nbsp; Example ==&gt; <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-%E2%80%9Cfamily%E2%80%9D-of-struck-fake-draped-bust-dollars.348423/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-%E2%80%9Cfamily%E2%80%9D-of-struck-fake-draped-bust-dollars.348423/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-“family”-of-struck-fake-draped-bust-dollars.348423/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Before the crack down they did not have the &quot;COPY&quot; stamp on them.&nbsp; But you&#039;ll find many previously imported examples still littering places like etsy, craigslist, ebay, etc</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193262[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193263[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The key red flag is finding a super rare coin that is not slabbed/authenticated already.</p><p>Of course, the counterfeiters got good at creating fake slabs too.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to go to that website all the time and compare the pictures to pictures of raw coins I was looking at acquiring.&nbsp; here&#039;s pics of before the COPY stamp crackdown ==&gt; <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sitting-liberty-dollar-coin-questions.331523/#post-3325245" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sitting-liberty-dollar-coin-questions.331523/#post-3325245">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sitting-liberty-dollar-coin-questions.331523/#post-3325245</a></p><p><br /></p><p>or for bad fake==&gt; <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/trade-dollar.331564/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/trade-dollar.331564/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/trade-dollar.331564/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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