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<p>[QUOTE="chrisfuccione, post: 703, member: 87"]Hi sorry it took a few days to post a reply to this but I was out of town. First I would never knok any one else collection or collecting habits. We are to small a hobby with competion with the internet , MTV and other things to turn people away by making fun of what they collect.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said my referance to there is a sucker born every minuite was refering to Chrysta's statement that no one would be fooled by a 1933 saint and that is not true. There are countless people mostley unifomed and the bagin hunterstheat are taken every day buying counterfit coins that anyone who has a thread of knowledge in coinage knows it has to be a fake(well they just sold a 1933 saint. So there must be some more around and I heard that the rest are illagal so that is why this nice young man called me and offering me such a bargin price of $1,00.00 for one) They prey on older people's fears and insercuritys. that is why AARP has done much in the way of teaching and informing thier members on scams like this and many others like it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I now have a question for you all. I heard a few years before I started collecting because of less than honest dealers ripping off the public Congress was looking at our hobby with the attempt of them steeping in and regulating it. that is why PNG was formed to allow the coin industry to be self regulating. 1) How much of this is true. 2) With scams like this how soon do you think the goverment will step back in? CHRIS[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisfuccione, post: 703, member: 87"]Hi sorry it took a few days to post a reply to this but I was out of town. First I would never knok any one else collection or collecting habits. We are to small a hobby with competion with the internet , MTV and other things to turn people away by making fun of what they collect. That said my referance to there is a sucker born every minuite was refering to Chrysta's statement that no one would be fooled by a 1933 saint and that is not true. There are countless people mostley unifomed and the bagin hunterstheat are taken every day buying counterfit coins that anyone who has a thread of knowledge in coinage knows it has to be a fake(well they just sold a 1933 saint. So there must be some more around and I heard that the rest are illagal so that is why this nice young man called me and offering me such a bargin price of $1,00.00 for one) They prey on older people's fears and insercuritys. that is why AARP has done much in the way of teaching and informing thier members on scams like this and many others like it. I now have a question for you all. I heard a few years before I started collecting because of less than honest dealers ripping off the public Congress was looking at our hobby with the attempt of them steeping in and regulating it. that is why PNG was formed to allow the coin industry to be self regulating. 1) How much of this is true. 2) With scams like this how soon do you think the goverment will step back in? CHRIS[/QUOTE]
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