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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed23, post: 2161804, member: 32117&quot;]Of course he&#039;s POed; only an idiot would not be. Only he doesn&#039;t know who to be ticked off at.</p><p><br /></p><p>But no,&nbsp; he did not get 1% or anything. His fakes were all boxed up and returned to him without a single sale. I don&#039;t deal in fakes and advised him to not try it either. I told him (in writing) if he wanted to take them to a local coin dealer for a second opinion he should, but to advise the dealer that he had been told these were fakes up front, so the dealer would not think he was a &quot;source&quot; for all the counterfeits and turn him in to the law. The same went for trying to sell them on eBay, or anywhere else, or he could be seen as guilty under the law as the counterfeiter themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with you that there are thousands of these fakes floating around that burn people regularly. They even occasionally get by an expert&#039;s examination. If one looks at the mintage totals of silver dollars versus the sheer number of them for sale regular on eBay alone, simple math indicates that many of those listings have to be fakes. I&#039;ve just never seen so many fakes in one collection as this poor man had in his.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for your final point we will just agree to disagree as I would rather have a silver Chinese fake I discovered I&#039;d gotten in change than a clad/other metal fake. I would much rather spend an afternoon in melting/recovering the silver content I could then sell, than an afternoon stamping &quot;COPY&quot; on a slug that went in a box of junk for which I could get no value in return.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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