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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1771292, member: 112&quot;]When it comes to the TPGs making mistakes and slabbing a counterfeit coin as being genuine, it happens more often with coins of other countries than it does with US coins. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There have been several threads here on CT where I have identified examples of the TPGs slabbing Netherlands ducats as being genuine when they were actually counterfeits made by the Russian mint. The coins were always of the correct weight &amp; fineness, but they were counterfeits just the same. And it is easily proved if you know the diagnostics. Of course if you don&#039;t know them, and not many do, well, you see the problem - fakes are slabbed as genuine.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Russian government intentionally counterfeited Netherlands ducats for over a century. It finally got to the point in 1849 that the Netherlands government stopped minting ducats themselves (for a time)&nbsp; in order to stop the Russians from counterfeiting their coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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