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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 348736, member: 4626&quot;]Er... because of high demand and relatively low supply of real trade dollars makes a real trade dollar value, thus the incentive to make a fake one to pass off as a real one.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of it also has to do with the fact that most of the real ones went to China in the past... China has rampant coin counterfeiting and Chinese counterfeiters take advantage of the fact that collectors would expect real trade dollars to come from China, and Chinese counterfeiters have a lot of practice faking these.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose if you don&#039;t like trade dollars and aren&#039;t buying them anyway, you&#039;re perfectly safe from ever getting ripped off with a fake lol...</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a coin that is faked so often I would never consider buying an uncertified one.&nbsp; My sig notwithstanding (I&#039;d be paying for a certified opinion of its authenticity, not its grade, so I&#039;d be willing to make an exception to my usual &quot;no-slab&quot; rule.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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