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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2201575, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;ll see ac.m&#039;s reservation and raise it to include every coin shown there.&nbsp; I have seen fakes of every type shown there.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure ANA knows the difference but the fact that they display them and don&#039;t have signs saying they are replicas confirms my decision to drop membership nearly fifty years ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>I once attended a travelling exhibit at the Smithsonian showing coins of &quot;Rome and the Germans&quot;.&nbsp; I even bought a nice booklet of the exhibit with photos of the real coins.&nbsp; The exhibit itself was entirely plaster with really excellent paint jobs.&nbsp; There was a time where museums were places you went to see stuff piled in cases with a few labels here and there. Now they are spending more on interactive exhibits and less on stuff to pile in cases.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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