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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 18618511, member: 101855"]To me a "contemporary counterfeit" is a Mahin's Mills piece that was made in the 1780s during the same time period that the genuine coins were struck. A "contemporary counterfeit" is not one that was made for collector consumption many decades after the original coins were made for circulation. </p><p><br /></p><p>So far what you choosing to decide what to collect, you are cutting your own collector throat if you make the Chinese garbage collectable items. If you want to market that crap, I would not be against the Secret Service coming and shutting your business down. I am usually a free market advocate, but if we make no effort to make the Chinese and other counterfeits unacceptable, we are looking at a bleak future for this hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 18618511, member: 101855"]To me a "contemporary counterfeit" is a Mahin's Mills piece that was made in the 1780s during the same time period that the genuine coins were struck. A "contemporary counterfeit" is not one that was made for collector consumption many decades after the original coins were made for circulation. So far what you choosing to decide what to collect, you are cutting your own collector throat if you make the Chinese garbage collectable items. If you want to market that crap, I would not be against the Secret Service coming and shutting your business down. I am usually a free market advocate, but if we make no effort to make the Chinese and other counterfeits unacceptable, we are looking at a bleak future for this hobby.[/QUOTE]
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