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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 439158, member: 15062&quot;]This still (I say again) doesn&#039;t address future generations that handle the coin.&nbsp; If you own a coin and know it&#039;s fake, and tell everyone it&#039;s a fake, that&#039;s fine.&nbsp; However, some day you will no longer be here on earth.&nbsp; Some relative or descendent of yours will likely come into possession of the coin.&nbsp; They may or may not know its provenance and may likely assume it&#039;s genuine.&nbsp; Would they be justified in selling it, thinking it&#039;s genuine, to another person who assumes it to be genuine?&nbsp; And would that person then be justified in passing the coins on to someone else?</p><p><br /></p><p>The point is, you may know what the coin is, but others who come into its possession might not have the same knowledge.&nbsp; Are you secure in knowing that your (in)action today may cause harm to an innocent party in the future? </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure that if you purchased a rare coin today with all assurances that it is genuine, you&#039;d be quite put out to later find that it&#039;s phony.&nbsp; Recently a 1909-SVDB slabbed cent was found to be fake, but only because a second coin with identical wear markings just happened to be presented for certification.&nbsp; Separately they were considered genuine, together they were shown to be fakes.&nbsp;&nbsp; The owners of each of these will probably sell them as real.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since you&#039;re done discussing this I don&#039;t expect an answer but I still haven&#039;t been told how marking a counterfeit coin as a copy destroys its value. Or more importantly, how not marking them is a benefit to the hobby and future collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anybody else have the answers?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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