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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2822961, member: 59677&quot;]One of the things we need to be aware of as collectors is that the economics of this kind of forgery has changed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once you have the guys made it&#039;s just as easy to fake common dates as rare dates. <span style="font-size: 16px">At $0.60 a piece it may be economical to artificially wear and age them and sell them into the junk silver market. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px"><br /></span></p><p>Selling 30 of them for 15 bucks a piece may not be quite as lucrative as selling 30 one at a time for two hundred bucks... but it&#039;s easier and less risk. Remember one of the things that set everybody&#039;s antennas twitching was seeing a sheet of 30 rare dates unslabbed and all looking a little too similar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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