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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 895, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Zombie Coins Stalk Collectors</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks!&nbsp; (That was from 1999.&nbsp; Gail dropped the Krajlevic from her name after her divorce and Ute is now the Director of the ANS, I think.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is exactly why I am opposed to the collecting of counterfeits and fakes.&nbsp; (Barbarous Radiiates, Celtics, Bungtowns and Conders are among the exceptions.&nbsp; Those are true numismatic items because they really were money in their time.)&nbsp; I have seen this at coin shows.</p><p><br /></p><p>A &quot;rich&quot; guy (engineer or lawyer, say) who is a collector of American goes on vacation to Europe and comes home with a fake coin.&nbsp; Maybe he got it in Israel or Turkey or Italy.&nbsp; (&quot;My cousin knows a place where you can dig.&nbsp; Meet us after dark.&quot;&nbsp; Of course the site is salted with fakes he can &quot;find.&quot;)&nbsp; So he comes home with his fake and takes it to a dealer for an appraisal of his &quot;bargain&quot; and gets the bad news.&nbsp; He tosses it in his junk box.&nbsp; When his estate dumps his collection, the next dealer may or may not spot the fake.&nbsp; It goes into the display case: Smyrna. Greek Imperial. Commodus 192 AD.$200.&nbsp; And the fake takes on a life of its own.&nbsp; It becomes a Zombie Coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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