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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TOLS196024, post: 138302, member: 3884&quot;]So I decided to do a little coin hunting.&nbsp; There are at least a dozen different coin shops within half an hour of my home, and I thought I&#039;d visit one which I had never been to before.&nbsp; It was a fairly small shop with only 5 cases of coins while most of the rest was devoted to stamps.&nbsp; I immediately noticed that nearly every coin was low grade, harshly cleaned, or both.&nbsp; He had tons of XF/AU Morgans that had been dipped to death sitting in 2x2&#039;s marked BU or Prooflike.&nbsp; I thought this was shady to say the least, but then I went over to his final case and saw something far worse.&nbsp; In it were sitting 4 Trade Dollars, all of which were obvious fakes.&nbsp; One was dated 1799!&nbsp; I remarked to the dealer that I had never seen a Trade Dollar from 1799 before, and he spent the next 5 minutes telling me what a rare issue it was and that it was a bargain at $450.00!&nbsp; After that I bid him good day and left.&nbsp; It&#039;s people like that who give dealers a bad name.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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