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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1837874, member: 19463&quot;]This advice will get you on the fake seller&#039;s lists and make it hard to sell other items in the future.&nbsp; The ancient community takes a very dim view of sales listed as &#039;I don&#039;t know but these belonged to grandpa so they must be old&#039;.&nbsp; There are several people who have traded in their coin hobby for the also interesting quest for fakes.&nbsp; There is even a Yahoo list dedicated to the cause. </p><p><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CoinForgeryDiscussionList/info" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CoinForgeryDiscussionList/info" rel="nofollow">http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CoinForgeryDiscussionList/info</a></p><p><br /></p><p>When I began in the hobby, collecting ancients was very much a place of trust.&nbsp; More recently we have been invaded by those who believe it is OK to word sales in such a way that the gullible might think they are getting something that they are not.&nbsp; There are still some old school dealers in positions of power in the hobby but I suspect the next generation will be much more of a &#039;buyer beware&#039; situation.&nbsp; eBay seems to be getting credit for leading the way in this change but, even there, we still have a good percentage of trustworthy sellers.&nbsp; Ignorance of the status of a fake is not a defense any more than telling the nice officer that you didn&#039;t know you were driving in a school zone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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