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<p>[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 7894727, member: 115909"]The reason I didn’t just post what the coin was is because it’s easy to identify a fake coin when you already know it’s fake. When no one gives you information about the coin you have to rely only on your own knowledge & observations which is the entire point of why I asked.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wanted to see if the people on here could identify a high quality fake like they claim when they tell people slabs are not recommended or if they would be fooled by a good fake thus proving that slabbed coins are the smart way to go.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only people who got frustrated with me for doing so are the people who feel entitled and think the entire forum belongs to themselves. I don’t care what those people think. I just block them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the end this post achieved its goal which is to prove to Ancient collectors that even highly skilled and knowledgeable collectors can be easily fooled by a high quality counterfeit and thus I hope this has taught people to stop bashing on slabbed coins since (as this post has proven) slabbed coins are much more likely to be authentic than raw ones since NGC experts were able to identify this fake whereas the majority of this forum could not tell it was fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which means there are probably many collectors well known on this forum who have lots of raw coins that they think are authentic but are actually fakes and they don’t know they are fakes because they haven’t sent them in for grading.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh and if I told people that the coin was a fake from the start they would’ve all pretended like they knew it was a fake because most people don’t want to admit that they got duped and fell for a fake. That would defeat the purpose of this thread because when collectors buy raw coins they don’t come with a slab or information of any kind and collectors have to rely on their own knowledge & observation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now when I see collectors bashing slabbed coins or telling newcomers not to buy slabbed coins I can refer them to this post and they can see that buying slabbed coins is the right way to go for anyone who is not a professional and buying raw coins is taking a huge risk no matter where you buy them from or how reputable the seller is because there are always high quality fakes like the one in my OP that fooled almost everyone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 7894727, member: 115909"]The reason I didn’t just post what the coin was is because it’s easy to identify a fake coin when you already know it’s fake. When no one gives you information about the coin you have to rely only on your own knowledge & observations which is the entire point of why I asked. I wanted to see if the people on here could identify a high quality fake like they claim when they tell people slabs are not recommended or if they would be fooled by a good fake thus proving that slabbed coins are the smart way to go. The only people who got frustrated with me for doing so are the people who feel entitled and think the entire forum belongs to themselves. I don’t care what those people think. I just block them. In the end this post achieved its goal which is to prove to Ancient collectors that even highly skilled and knowledgeable collectors can be easily fooled by a high quality counterfeit and thus I hope this has taught people to stop bashing on slabbed coins since (as this post has proven) slabbed coins are much more likely to be authentic than raw ones since NGC experts were able to identify this fake whereas the majority of this forum could not tell it was fake. Which means there are probably many collectors well known on this forum who have lots of raw coins that they think are authentic but are actually fakes and they don’t know they are fakes because they haven’t sent them in for grading. Oh and if I told people that the coin was a fake from the start they would’ve all pretended like they knew it was a fake because most people don’t want to admit that they got duped and fell for a fake. That would defeat the purpose of this thread because when collectors buy raw coins they don’t come with a slab or information of any kind and collectors have to rely on their own knowledge & observation. Now when I see collectors bashing slabbed coins or telling newcomers not to buy slabbed coins I can refer them to this post and they can see that buying slabbed coins is the right way to go for anyone who is not a professional and buying raw coins is taking a huge risk no matter where you buy them from or how reputable the seller is because there are always high quality fakes like the one in my OP that fooled almost everyone.[/QUOTE]
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