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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LostDutchman, post: 684579, member: 16994&quot;]Have you ever thought that we may very well have Chinese counterfeiters in our midst here??? I&#039;m not sure how many people have thought about this before. We are the people who they are trying to fool. What&#039;s to say they wont take a picture of their latest super counterfeit and post it for opinions to see if:</p><p><br /></p><p>A) anyone catches it. Which we most likely will. </p><p><br /></p><p>B) If someone with experience will give them an opinion of why their coin looks wrong and they can use this to improve upon their work.</p><p><br /></p><p>The whole time they pose as an unknowing collector and draw absolutely no suspicion from us besides being another poor collector burned by the counterfeiters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now please don&#039;t get me wrong. I think that the work we do on this board to advance the hobby is keeping us ahead of them. But I think an air of suspicion is absolutely necessary in these times. It is painfully obvious that these people are hurting the hobby we love. This is something I have had in the back of my mind for a while but there have just been some post lately that I read from new posters and think &quot;hmmm this could easily be a Chinese counterfeiter posting his wears to get opinions to see what he needs to fix and therefore make a better counterfeit&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>So are we unintentionally collectively shooting ourselves in the proverbial foot??[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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