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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chris00nj, post: 1468389, member: 38698&quot;]My first post, so forgive me if I am repeating an oft-discussed topic. I did some amateur collecting in the 90s and early 2000s, but have been coming back to it recently.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been reading about the tremendous amount of fakes coming from China in the last several years. There were fakes back in the 1990s, but usually it was limited to changing mint marks or faking a rare error - all coins at the $1000 level. If you collected copper or silver coins for common years ($20-$50 value) you were safe from the counterfeiters. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, now everything is a forgery. Every coin, every material, every year, every grade. I&#039;ve seen jinghuashei&#039;s site and I&#039;ve read that dealers have trouble spotting fakes. So even if a dealer has a good reputation, they could be unknowingly spotting fakes. Or buyers leaving that good reptuation), may not even know that they have bought fakes. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m overwhelmed by the fakes and am hesitant to buy anything. The only thing I seem to have confidence in, is junk silver since it has no nuismatic value.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is you guys&#039;s strategy having confidence in buying the real deal given the plethora of fakes?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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