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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2219661, member: 112"]There's a lot to know about counterfeits Daniel, far more than could ever be discussed here on this forum. There are several entire books dedicated to the subject, and they are not small books. And that doesn't account for the hundreds of articles on the subject that have been written over the years, nor the websites dedicated to it. Some of the websites don't even exist anymore. Here is a link to just a little of that information that I put together years ago - <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/counterfeits.13989/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/counterfeits.13989/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/counterfeits.13989/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It also helps to know things like back in the '60s and '70s there were entire factories in the middle east doing nothing but producing counterfeit gold coins from just about every country, especially those of the US. And they turned these fakes out by the millions. And some of these fakes were so good they could fool almost anybody. There is even a story of some fake British sovereigns that were so good they fooled the folks at the Royal Mint. It was things like this that gave reason for the creation of the TPGs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Suffice it to say that a great many of the coins from these factories can be found in the collections of people who collect gold - and they don't even know they have them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2219661, member: 112"]There's a lot to know about counterfeits Daniel, far more than could ever be discussed here on this forum. There are several entire books dedicated to the subject, and they are not small books. And that doesn't account for the hundreds of articles on the subject that have been written over the years, nor the websites dedicated to it. Some of the websites don't even exist anymore. Here is a link to just a little of that information that I put together years ago - [url]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/counterfeits.13989/[/url] It also helps to know things like back in the '60s and '70s there were entire factories in the middle east doing nothing but producing counterfeit gold coins from just about every country, especially those of the US. And they turned these fakes out by the millions. And some of these fakes were so good they could fool almost anybody. There is even a story of some fake British sovereigns that were so good they fooled the folks at the Royal Mint. It was things like this that gave reason for the creation of the TPGs. Suffice it to say that a great many of the coins from these factories can be found in the collections of people who collect gold - and they don't even know they have them.[/QUOTE]
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