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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 1939789, member: 4373&quot;]I guess this can happen to anyone and it might be a lesson to learn.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a while ago, I lost my job and it&#039;s only recently that I found a job that paid me pretty well. To celebrate the moment, I bought a few coins that I have been hunting for years. These coins rarely appear even in auction houses.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you may imagine, they aren&#039;t cheap. All of them were bought online and I really never had much trouble buying coins online. Yes, I know you can start talking about the risks etc but we&#039;ll put that aside for now. There&#039;s no local coin dealer here and the nearest I have to go to is probably at least 2 hours of driving and 5 hours of flying. Not an option. I&#039;ve been buying a fair amount for the past decade and it has never got to this point.</p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of coins came out to be counterfeits as they had signs of pitting. Sent a rather unhappy email to the seller which he obliged to return my money as soon as he receives them. I sent them back by registered mail and the mail &quot;conveniently&quot; goes missing. This was a big eye opener for me. I&#039;m still at the stage of writing a few &quot;angry&quot; emails as this is not acceptable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another one just arrived today and this wasn&#039;t really obvious until I weigh it. Underweight by 0.2 grams and I thought this was unusual. Picked two other coins from other years and turns out this coin was smaller by a good mm or so. Plus when I looked at the edge carefully, it was polished and it showed signs of a seam. Alas, it cannot be genuine.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess the moral of the story is that you always need to be at the top of the game. It&#039;s your money that you are spending so you want to make sure that you have the real deal. Thankfully all of them had easy tell signs of counterfeits unlike a couple of the super counterfeits that I have in my collection. I was actually surprised as both sellers had good feedbacks. Unless I happened to look for something too obscure or unlucky, there could be no telling how many others were stung in the same process.</p><p><br /></p><p>In short - always check what you get.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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