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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 2171720, member: 4373&quot;]Again, this is an open invitation for counterfeiters to start flooding the market. You might end up seeing high quality fantasy coins in the very near future. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is an example from China. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/989255.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Overstruck over this</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/1021214.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is supposedly a coin originated from Kansu Province. If this is genuine, this is easily a 5000 dollar coin. While it&#039;s not feasible to do such overstrikes these days, this was done when many Chinese coins were sold close to scrap value. This was done perhaps more than 5 - 10 years ago. While I haven&#039;t seen any other examples since then - this is alarming. I had a couple of emails from potential buyers who were willing to spend more than 1000 dollars to buy this despite the warning. I had to refuse them. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wouldn&#039;t have a qualm if this had a mark to identify that this is indeed a fantasy &#039;coin&#039;. But no, this instead relies on collectors to know their stuff inside out. Would an average joe presume that the &#039;coin&#039; is genuine? Yes. Suppose an amateur collector tries to find this in his catalog. Not documented - surely it has to be an undocumented discovery and it had to be rare and worth a fair bit. Of course, to long time collectors, this may be hilarious initially. </p><p><br /></p><p>Based on earlier arguments, this is something I would expect such from an entrepreneur counterfeiter or synthetic drug producers. Despite how you want to start a lecture that it is &#039;legal&#039;, laws are not designed to cover every aspect of potential crimes. In fact, new laws are usually formed only after a major problem occur in society. At this point of time, all I can say is that such &#039;fantasy&#039; is not causing a problem <u>yet</u>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now tell me - what is there to stop potential counterfeiters from reading this and start up their operation to make their buck?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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