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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cringely, post: 1002657, member: 22271&quot;]Just got back from Long Beach. Ken Frechman, from Estate Coins in Burbank refunded not only the original purchase price, but did also pay me for my grading costs. It&#039;s good to know that there are honorable dealers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before taking the coin <i>[see photos at the start of this thread] </i>to Ken, I showed it to four other dealers: one graded it VF, a second graded it EF cleaned, the third had reservations as to authenticity and the fourth immediately (and emphatically) said it was a fake. I did this test to see how easy/hard it is to get a &quot;good&quot; counterfeit past a knowledgeable dealer (and in no way tried to sell the coin; only wanted to get opinions as I am friends with 3 of the 4 dealers).</p><p>The upshot is that all of us have to be very careful in the face of what the Chinese are dumping on us.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, I did get a replacement, this time a 1798 dollar (13 stars) NCS slabbed. I&#039;d post a picture, but can&#039;t get a good quality image on my scanner (due to the coin being slabbed)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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