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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mr. Coin Lover, post: 689285, member: 16060&quot;]Most of these pictures I have seen before, and they are still just as depressing to me now as when I first saw them.&nbsp; To me this is just another example of an &quot;invasion&quot; of our nation&#039;s history and integrity that is allowed to continue.&nbsp; I agree that if this is allowed to continue it may very well be the death to our hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our elected leaders don&#039;t care, it doesn&#039;t create good sound-bites for them.&nbsp; The argument about more urgent problems to take care of is not valid in my opinion. This is because they are not taking care of those either. I have to be careful here not to turn this into a political post, but who else has the power to really do anything constructive about this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Saying there has always been counterfieters and always will be is also not a valid argument in my opinion.&nbsp; If our nation aggressively tried to prevent this it would not stop, but to use this as an argument is nothing short of a surrender.&nbsp;&nbsp; If one really didn&#039;t take the time to look closely go back and look again at the volume of coins shown.&nbsp; If thirty to forty per cent of these coins were prevented from reaching our shores then&nbsp; we would be talking about a lot of coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The argument about knowledge is valid, but how valid is it for someone just starting into the hobby as a beginner or novice?&nbsp; If one has to spend months learning about the hobby before even buying a coin due to fear of spending tens, hundreds, or thousands of dollars on a fake I would think they would find a different hobby.&nbsp; We all know this hobby takes a good deal of knowledge and learning before one even gets into counterfeit detection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously this is very upsetting to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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