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Message:: [QUOTE="Marshall, post: 7750716, member: 21705"]Reporting suspicious coins is not an accusation, it is a request for information or confirmation about your concerns. Some people jump to conclusions quickly because of inexperience and some because of experience. We just have to sort out credibility and information for ourselves. I have often posted suspicious coins with no thought about whether the seller a counterfeiter, a victim of a counterfeiter or if I am suspicious of an authentic coin because of the prevalence of counterfeits and something just doesn't look right. I am guilty of posting my suspicions quickly, usually because they are a current eBay offering and the CT community is where I can find the opinions of others, some I respect from reputation and others who offer analysis which I may or may not agree with. But I only rarely conclude a seller is knowing part of the distribution ring. Most of the time my default position is it is simply someone who is unaware that it might be counterfeit. Only when a seller is new and has several suspicious coins does my suspicion switch from the coins to the seller. Even then, it is only a suspicion and not a conclusion. I believe most of the community is of a similar mind.[/QUOTE]