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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RedTiger, post: 1247391, member: 19098&quot;]Unfortunately, coins are just one of many items being faked. Luxury goods, tech devices, software, DVDs, have been counterfeited for many years, on a much larger scale, for much bigger profits. If Microsoft, with the best lawyers money can buy, can hardly make a dent, what chance do coin collectors have of stopping fake coins. Coin collectors have the ANA with a peashooter legal budget in comparison to MSFT and a few grading companies with not much more. So mostly it falls back on the collector to avoid the fakes. Some fakes are crude, some are better, some are really scary. Don&#039;t let the crude fakes give you a false sense of confidence. There are also fake slabs, sometimes with a real coin inside. Don&#039;t think that it is only expensive coins being faked. Fakes of relatively low cost items such as foreign minors and common U.S. Civil War tokens have been reported. For every online report of a fake there are likely a thousand fakes crawling around various venues.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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