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Message:: [QUOTE="blsmothermon, post: 1002453, member: 26158"]Well, I can tell you of one experience I had with one dealer. I was at a show and there was a tub of Morgans that I was interested in picking up a few. They were a little better than junk silver and he was asking $15 a piece. As I was looking thru them, there was one that was an OBVIOUS cast copy. I mean, weight, size, surface, everything was wrong with this coin, it was obvious. I handed it to him and said "This must've gotten in here by mistake. Here you go." He looked at it for a second and asked me why. I told him it looked like a fake to me. He harumpfed and said "Aw, um, I don't know. If somebody wants to buy it, it should be in there." He promptly tossed it back in the $15 tub with about 50 genuine Morgans, and I promptly left his table. I don't know if he was just ignorant about fakes, or that genuinely dishonest but I refused to buy anything from someone who cared so little for his merchandise. Edit: Sorry I realized that was a little rambling with no conclusion. My point was, just as we know that not all coin dealers are dishonest, just because one is a coin dealer do not assume that they are able to identify genuine coins.[/QUOTE]