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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 1261786, member: 24091&quot;]What the Chinese are doing is hardly new.&nbsp; Back in the 1960s and 1970s all sorts of world crowns were counterfeited.&nbsp; I believe in Italy.&nbsp; I was at a coin dealer in San Jose a few years ago, -the dealer actually collected the fakes for his own collection.&nbsp; He brought out a tray with at least 300 crowns on it, all of them fake, many of them different.&nbsp; Was fascinating to look through them, several dozen I had personally seen before, others I knew about.&nbsp; But to see so many in one big heap, it was a real treat.&nbsp; While I don&#039;t support the manufacture of counterfeits, I don&#039;t think they are nearly the threat to the hobby that many seem to think they are.&nbsp; It certainly increases the value of our own expertise in authenticating coins, so in some ways it&#039;s a boost to the hobby.&nbsp; A far bigger concern, in my opinion, is the US government proclivity to go along with foreign government efforts to sieze coins based on &quot;national patrimony&quot; --now that really is a threat to the hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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