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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 690014, member: 66&quot;]How valid is it for the novice?&nbsp; Extremely important.&nbsp; And if a novice is going to spend tens, hundreds or even thousands of dollars on things he has no knowledge about he deserves what he gets and maybe he does need to have a different hobby.&nbsp; The novice should stay with low value items until he becomes more experienced and then he can move on to better and more expnsive material.&nbsp; The &quot;investor&quot; type who wants to come in and spends thousands of dollars on something just because they are pretty and someone told them they are valuable, but don&#039;t know why they should be valuable or if they are even real, deserve what they get.</p><p><br /></p><p>The novices need to be taught not coddled and protected from the big bad world.&nbsp; That doesn&#039;t mean I don&#039;t think that steps shouldn&#039;t be taken to stop the counterfeiters, but I also realize that you will never stop them completely.&nbsp; You will be lucky to slow them down.&nbsp; For that reason and that reason alone knowledge will continue to be more important than ever.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now on that point I most definitely agree, and it is the domestic theives that the force of law needs to come down on HARD.&nbsp; You have to make it so it is not worth their while to try for that rip.&nbsp; Make the fine equal to the market value of the genuine coin for every fake found in their possession or knowingly sold.&nbsp; (That keeps them from selling them and having them drop shipped from the counterfeiter in China.&nbsp; They can still be fined for selling fake they never had in their possession.&nbsp; Only problem might be proving that they knew they were fake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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