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Message:: [QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 3977366, member: 72790"]Most of us who have been collecting coins for a while know full well that we probably have had fake coins or currency in our collections. What to do with them when we find out that we do? For many years I either threw them out or put them in a junk box for the little ones to go through. Eventually I realized that some of these may have re-entered the marketplace and fooled others. I could have gone back to tossing them but then read about the "Black Cabinets" or boxes where such coins are labelled and kept as a kind of reminder to be careful out there. So I started to display them (fortunately only a few, thus far) but away from my main collection in a, if not quite black but very dark brown cabinet box. In each case I have had experienced collectors tell me why the coin was phony and what to look for, things that I would never have otherwise noticed. "Experience runs an expensive school...", so to speak. Anyway I thought I would ask others what they do when they discover a phony numismatic item (long after one could return it). Do you have a Black Cabinet and if so could you show us yours? A separate folder, tray, cigar box or whatever? Thanks and maybe all of us could learn something to help us not fill up that part of our collection.[ATTACH=full]1046917[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1046921[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1046916[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]