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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;C-B-D, post: 1871635, member: 43130&quot;]Today at my local coin show I asked to see a dealer&#039;s 2 type coins that were sitting on his bullion coins. One was a 1798 large cent that said XF on the holder. The second was an 1868-S XF seated quarter (key date). The large cent under a loupe was evenly porous but the bust design was flat out different than a true draped bust cent. The facial features were different, Ms. LIBERTY&#039;S head and bust were slightly smaller than it should have been, and there were light, extremely even dentils all around the obverse. The quarter was a better fake. But the eagle didn&#039;t have a tongue! And the mintmark looked hand-engraved and funky... not like it should.</p><p><br /></p><p>I told the dealer, &quot;These look funny. The design is off.&quot;</p><p>&quot;They&#039;re genuine,&quot; he replied. &quot;Had em since I was a kid.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I thanked him and walked away. But it started to really bug me. Either he didn&#039;t know they were fakes or he was lying to make money. So I consulted another dealer about it that I knew personally. He told me I should tell the organizer (also a dealer). So I walked over to him, described the coins and told him which dealer it was.</p><p>His response: &quot;I know you, John, and if you say they&#039;re fake then they probably are. But Glenn [the dealer selling the fakes] probably has no clue.&nbsp; Even though that story about having them since he was a kid sounds like bull___. I&#039;ll go look at them and tell him to either take them out of his case or mark the holders as counterfeits. Thanks for letting me know. We just can&#039;t allow that.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I feel like a tattle-tale. I&#039;m not that confrontational. But I could just imagine some collector buying them for $1000+ and then finding out they&#039;d thrown away all that cash. So that makes me feel better about it all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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