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Message:: [QUOTE="mycohopper, post: 981736, member: 21377"]My fear from this milestone is that they will step up their game and improve their already-pretty-good fakes to sell to the black market. It's only a matter of time until they get their fakes at 99.9% indistinguishable from the real deal. They've taken a huge hit from this and I highly doubt they'll be giving up with making coins - it's only going to get better for them and worse for us as collectors. I was pretty sure that Jinghuashei (or some other counterfeiter located in China) bought an authentic Morgan Dollar die from the US. But his Morgans are still turning up in body bags from TPG's. It's obvious that they aren't doing a very thorough job with the weighing out the silver/tungsten/whatever to be pressed and pressing it with the same amount of pressure that was used at the US mint. I've seen plenty of his 'work' and it's very crude, to say the least. I'm convinced that with a little tweaking of their methods, they could produce exact mirror images of just about any coin you could think of in just about any gradable state (even PL or matte examples) with little-to-no way of determining its authenticity. It's not impossible, it's just resourceful.[/QUOTE]