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Message:: [QUOTE="john59, post: 2142301, member: 73760"]As to people buying for investments (stocks, bonds, real estate, silver/gold, coins) most of the investors depend on the advice from professionals and for you to get stuck with it it's a shame but you always have con-artists in every field. The government fights counterfeiting everyday. Have you ever seen the customs in some of the airports especially on the west coast? Millions of boxes of counterfeit stuff that they confiscate everyday. Yes, they can confiscate counterfeit coins if they wanted to. They have the ability to do it. It just looks like they don't want to. There's no business that is hurt directly from the counterfeiting and very few governments get affected by it, as to coins. I agree with you that we should reject the counterfeits. That would probably be the best way to help to a point with this problem. Too many collectors enjoy putting them in their albums. Counterfeiting will always be here, we all know that. We just have to try to minimize the loss to the hobby. If you get a starting collector that gets burnt with a counterfeit coin, we could lose that person and many more from the hobby.[/QUOTE]