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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1556658, member: 12789&quot;]If I collected $3 gold I would be buying a decent reference to look up the diagnostics of them - not relying on someone else&#039;s opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing to add about the counterfeits, one has to differentiate the numismatic counterfeits which were made to fool collectors, ie the Omega counterfeits and those Middle Eastern, probably Lebanese counterfeits from the 1950s and 1960s - the latter were made for monetary purposes in a region of the world where then they didn&#039;t trust paper money too much.&nbsp; They were even stamping out enough British Sovereigns that the BRM felt compelled by 1958 to start striking them again so there would be a reliable source.&nbsp; The Lebanese fakes were made of the proper fineness and weight of gold for the most part.&nbsp; They were not made to fool collectors, but rather to fool money changers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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