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<p>[QUOTE="Yacorie, post: 1259648, member: 25257"]Lately, I've been stopping in the various pawn shops and thrift stores just out of curiosity to see what coins they have for sale, if any. Today I was at a thrift/consignment shop when I saw that they had books of Morgans. I asked to see them and at first was amazed to see 3 or 4 CC morgans marked for 30 dollars each. However, as I turned the pages, I realized that they were all CC morgans. The coins were obvious fakes, much lighter than an authentic Morgan and had some other obvious issues. Saturday I was only in the store for about 5 minutes but today went back with my son to look at some of the books they had there (not coin books). The store is owned and run by a foreign couple and I didn't get a very comfortable feeling so I decided not to point out that they were fake. While we were there today, I watched them sell one of the coins to a father/daughter. </p><p><br /></p><p>What would you guys do? Honestly - I'm not sure that telling this couple the coins are fake would be the best thing for me but I'm not sure what else there is to do. I'm sure many of you have run into this before and I've been in pawn shops that have fake coins in bins labeled as such.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is there anything to do besides just telling them they are selling fake coins and hoping that they are completely unaware of it?</p><p><br /></p><p>Appreciate the advice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Yacorie, post: 1259648, member: 25257"]Lately, I've been stopping in the various pawn shops and thrift stores just out of curiosity to see what coins they have for sale, if any. Today I was at a thrift/consignment shop when I saw that they had books of Morgans. I asked to see them and at first was amazed to see 3 or 4 CC morgans marked for 30 dollars each. However, as I turned the pages, I realized that they were all CC morgans. The coins were obvious fakes, much lighter than an authentic Morgan and had some other obvious issues. Saturday I was only in the store for about 5 minutes but today went back with my son to look at some of the books they had there (not coin books). The store is owned and run by a foreign couple and I didn't get a very comfortable feeling so I decided not to point out that they were fake. While we were there today, I watched them sell one of the coins to a father/daughter. What would you guys do? Honestly - I'm not sure that telling this couple the coins are fake would be the best thing for me but I'm not sure what else there is to do. I'm sure many of you have run into this before and I've been in pawn shops that have fake coins in bins labeled as such. Is there anything to do besides just telling them they are selling fake coins and hoping that they are completely unaware of it? Appreciate the advice.[/QUOTE]
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