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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pnightingale, post: 1278592, member: 32585&quot;]Political Correctness plays a part in enabling the counterfeiters. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have been denounced (not here but elsewhere) as a &quot;racist, globalist, reactionary, xenophobic&quot; and a whole bunch of other names I either can&#039;t remember or don&#039;t understand. My &quot;crime&quot; was referring to fakes coins produced by Chinamen, in China, on Chinese presses, in Chinese factories, with the connivance of the Chinese Government as...... CHINESE fakes. It&#039;s racist apparently, so is referring to them as Communists. The double-think needed must give these poor people migraines!</p><p><br /></p><p>When I asked if the in-crowd would be getting excited if I refered to fakes produced by Germans, on German presses etc. etc. as GERMAN fakes, I got denounced again as a capitalist lackey or some such trendy nonsense and threatened with expulsion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pretending that the fakes are being produced by evil white supremacists as part of a plot to enslave and exploit the third world isn&#039;t going to help any. I don&#039;t buy coins sourced from China because of the overwhelming likeliehood that is a fake, if that makes me a racist then cry me a river. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, there are fakes produced elsewhere in the world and by people of all colors. But nowhere else is it being done on such a scale and with such sophistication. The cheap, cast fakes produced elsewhere from base metals can be spotted by Ray Charles, however even after decades of coin collecting I can&#039;t tell a good quality Chinese coin from an original. I wish I could but I can&#039;t and it worries me. I&#039;ve already stopped buying silver dollars because of this issue, how many potential coin collectors are being driven of by the Chinese crooks? Am I alone in seeing the death knell of Numismatiacs at the hands of these thieves?</p><p><br /></p><p>It takes two to tango so the answer is obvious, boycott Chinese products - all of them. Don&#039;t trade with eBay sellers who include &quot;replicas&quot; in their stock. Don&#039;t buy the poisonous dry wall, the toys painted with lead paint, the bottled drinks with benzene as an added bonus, or any of the other millions of shoddy and dangerous products they dump on us. The Chinese Government won&#039;t act until they see the balance of trade start to shift, our own Governments won&#039;t act because they are bought and paid for by the Yen. It&#039;s up to &quot;We the People&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the benefit of any lurking PC types, I have nothing against the Chinese except for their predatory trading practices and nasty government. I don&#039;t like crooks of any color, their &quot;Chinesenessism&quot; is purely incidental. If you feel so strongly about it why don&#039;t you just feel absolutely free to order a double amount of &quot;genuine silver dollar, very rare coin!&quot; to make up for the ones I won&#039;t be buying?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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