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Message:: [QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 21318999, member: 77814"]back when the alibaba aliexpress (and other) websites were FULL of fake coins that look really good, I stopped collecting too. I was starting to collect in early US and Colonial coins.I also recall when young buying "fake coins" from jars in the Boston gift shops before the "COPY" requirement years later came about.  So it made me think in that sense too. So I mostly drifted to buying directly from the mint or specific places like ProvidentMetals, APMEX on buying silver and gold US coins and other coins.  Let them inspect the coins themselves. But my purchasing habits were greatly cut due to health reasons too.I was spending a lot of time looking at the aliexpress fakes and comparing them to real ones to understand.  And reading up on how they made those fakes, etc. But I never really caught up in all the granular details like Jack Young has.I'm glad I wasn't a silver Morgan Dollar collector.[/QUOTE]