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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CheetahCats, post: 865849, member: 23874&quot;]It is a large problem.&nbsp; Wide scale counterfeiting operations are&nbsp; happening in China.&nbsp; Even the United States Mint has issued warnings&nbsp; pursuant to the issue.&nbsp; To make matters worse, a &quot;businessman&quot; in China even possesses a press that originated from the Philadelphia Mint, and can produce Morgans with the same exact tolerances as the originals.&nbsp; The US Mint, with their infinite bureaucratic wisdom, sold the Shanghai mint a press in 1923.&nbsp; It subsequently fell into the hands of said Chinese &quot;businessman&quot;, known as Mr. L.</p><p><br /></p><p>More information can be found at:&nbsp; <a href="http://coins.about.com/od/errorcoinsdievarieties/ig/Tour-of-the-Shanghai-Mint/Shanghai-Mint.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.about.com/od/errorcoinsdievarieties/ig/Tour-of-the-Shanghai-Mint/Shanghai-Mint.htm" rel="nofollow">http://coins.about.com/od/errorcoinsdievarieties/ig/Tour-of-the-Shanghai-Mint/Shanghai-Mint.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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