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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7380784, member: 118780&quot;]My main concern isn&#039;t about the ancient fakes. For those, fourees usually show themselves with age. In some cases, the ancient counterfeiters obtained original dies and in a few odd cases the &quot;counterfeiter&quot; was the government itself. There isn&#039;t much we can do about those and they&#039;ll probably be considered genuine way past our lifetimes.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the modern fakes are a problem. The vast majority now are very crude and aren&#039;t that difficult to decipher. However, I&#039;ve read that it&#039;s become extraordinarily difficult to detect fake coins in the Chinese ancient coins market. One worry I have is it&#039;s inevitable that they&#039;ll turn their craft to ancient Greek and Roman coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>This hit&#039;s a nerve for me because the majority of people I show my coins to today believe they are fake. The idea that a coin so ancient can be so well preserved is probably the reason a US dollar from 1794 (the best copy, but others are known) sold for three times the only known gold Eid Mar in private hands, despite the immense superiority of the Eid Mar in historic value, age, and rarity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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