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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MnMShow, post: 2991597, member: 90349&quot;]I recently inherited/was given my mother’s coin collection.&nbsp; I was immediately enthusiastic about it and set about organizing it and filling in some occasional missing dates.&nbsp; The collection is quite large and contains coins from all denominations going back to the 1800’s.&nbsp; In particular though she collected a lot of morgans which we both think are pretty cool.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am no expert and I only recently started getting up to speed on coin collecting in general, but recently I discovered there is what looks to be an avalanche of fakes coming out of china.&nbsp; I initially found out about morgans but after looking into it, it looks like just about everything old and remotely valuable is being faked.&nbsp; Worse, the consensus I am gathering from reading numismatic blog posts about it is that the fakes are getting to be so good that even experts can be fooled.</p><p><br /></p><p>With this in mind, I am now leaning towards the opinion that maybe I should just liquidate the entire collection (or the vast majority of it) before it is rendered more or less worthless by fakes too realistic to tell from the originals.&nbsp; If even an expert can’t tell a fake from an original than the original is bound to lose value as the rare factor becomes meaningless.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given that I am posting this to a coin collection forum I am expecting a certain amount of bias in favor of keep on keeping on as it were.&nbsp; But I am curious what others think and feel on this topic.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that to some extent professional grading is a partial remedy for this situation, at least to the extent that coins that were graded and slabbed some time ago are unlikely to be inauthentic.&nbsp; But the only graded coins I have are ones I bought myself to add to the collection.&nbsp; All of the coins my mom gave me are ungraded.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also contemplated just getting a bunch of the higher value ones from her original collection graded to hopefully get on the front side of the issue so to speak, but honestly I don’t know how bad it is.&nbsp; If the fakes are good enough to fool the grading organizations now then anything I have graded now may not be considered reliable later anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>The whole issue kind of bums me out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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