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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1468964, member: 112&quot;]No, you weren&#039;t. But your thinking is pretty common.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You are lulled into a false sense of security. For low end stuff is counterfeited just as much, if not more, than high end stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>The primary difference with today&#039;s world regarding counterfeits is not that there are more counterfeits out there, there aren&#039;t. It&#039;s merely that communications and technology have allowed the public to become aware of just how many fakes there really are.</p><p><br /></p><p>And believe it or not, low end stuff is the primary target because nobody suspects low end stuff. And that makes it easy for the counterfeiters to get away with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>And don&#039;t forget, until recent years the most common reason for counterfeiting any coin was so that fake could be passed off as legal money. Thus every date and every mint mark, every denomination, especially the most common, was subject to being counterfeited.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just about every collector there is owns a few, and some own a great many, fakes - and they don&#039;t even know it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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