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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1412243, member: 19065&quot;]People are known to be xenophobic too*, which goes part of the way to explain their intolerance of things coming from China. There are myriad distorted reasons why US collectors might disdain Asians and Chinese when it comes to copies of US coins, perhaps based on other political differences, frustration at current economic and employment issues, lingering cold war politics, human rights issues, and so on. I think it&#039;s rather unfortunate that much of what is called counterfeiting anymore is almost synonymous with latent anti-China sentiment. Sadly, many comments on coin collecting forums approach this. </p><p><br /></p><p>Many fakes thought to be found selling on eBay are immediately judged &#039;origin of China&#039; and with the slightest of proof of such origin in a lot of cases. Of course there is a growing and recognized problem with such an issue coming from that nation, but it shouldn&#039;t extend to xenophobia as it seems to be veering evermore towards. </p><p><br /></p><p>Still the difference between Chinese and other origin counterfeits is the way they are inserted into the marketplace with an attempt to deceive and in the mass numbers that they appear, whereas Carr&#039;s pieces are expressly disclaimed from this, called out by himself as &#039;fantasy issues&#039; and of nominal mintage all to the contrary of what most consider counterfeits to be. Furthermore, as stated earlier, Carr&#039;s pieces do not threaten to subvert the currency of the United States, and could not with so few minted. The NORFED dollars were perceived as such a threat and the operation seized and the operator convicted for such crimes. These are the differences that many fail to see when we discuss DC&#039;s work.</p><p><br /></p><p>* <font size="1"><i>I&#039;m not saying you are being xenophobic geezer. Just wanted to be clear about that.</i></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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