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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2658776, member: 24314&quot;]</p><p><br /></p><p>Amen to the images!&nbsp; Cannot be sure from what is posted.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to these statements: &quot;Lebanon fakes (at least those were made with melted down 14kt gold jewelry, unlike the more modern fakes with zero gold).&quot;&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>1. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I have no idea where the notion of melted down jewelry to make fakes in Lebanon comes from.&nbsp; IMO, this is some nonsense from some uninformed old coin dealers or an equally uninformed pseudo-coin <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />authenticator.&nbsp; There were many of these folks around in the 1960&#039;s and early 1970&#039;s when counterfeit detection in this country was in its infancy.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I learned all about the counterfeit industry in Lebanon from a former ANA President who visited one of the actual factories in Lebanon the late 1960&#039;s.&nbsp; They did not melt jewelry to make coins. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>2. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I have yet to see a &quot;modern fake gold piece w/zero gold&quot; that was not a crude spangle on a belly dancer&#039;s dress! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />These imitations <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":vomit:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> should fool no one who collects gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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