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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jack D. Young, post: 26744932, member: 93371&quot;]I use the term “counterfeit researcher” to describe myself…</p><p><br /></p><p>I am an Engineer by training and collector of low grade early large cents and counterfeit researcher and author on the subject of the recent deceptive struck counterfeits; founder of the <i>Dark Side- Counterfeits and Fakes</i> and <i>Fun with Fakes</i> Facebook watch groups, participating member of Early American Coppers, the Liberty Seated Collectors Club, C4, the NLG, ANA and ANS.</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually started collecting as a youth with my grandmother filling a Lincoln &quot;penny board&quot; mostly out of circulation back when the dinosaurs roamed the land... She actually took me to my first coin shop in the Dayton Arcade where I saw my first large cent, and that was as they say &quot;history&quot;!</p><p><br /></p><p>I joined Early American Coppers (EAC) in 2002 and continue to collect low grade early large cents by date and some varieties but became interested in the latest deceptive struck counterfeits back in the fall of 2015 with the &quot;discovery&quot; of a fake 1798 &quot;S-158&quot; large cent by a friend and EAC dealer.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have participated on the subject of counterfeits and their effect on the Hobby in meetings in DC with Staffers of the Senate Finance Committee, a Senior Member of the Secret Service (both with the ACTF as an Expert Network volunteer) as well as conference calls with agents of both CBP and the Treasury.</p><p><br /></p><p>Articles published on the subject include several in EAC’s “Penny-Wise”, the LSCC’s “Gobrecht Journal”, the Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C-4) NL, 1 in ANA’s “Numismatist”, 80+ articles in Coin Week and 2 articles published in Coin World this spring. I have been acknowledged for the counterfeit research by Q. David Bowers in his recent Book &quot;The Copper Coins of Vermont&quot;, in the Colonial Newsletter (CNL) and awarded the ACTF&#039;s Alan Kreuzer Award for 2019 and again 2025, as well as the PNG’s Sol Kaplan award in 2022.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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