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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2316166, member: 4781&quot;]You repeatedly state that the fantasy-date over-strikes are &quot;copies&quot;. That is only your opinion, and it is highly debatable. There has been no legal ruling that they are &quot;copies&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you think the cat is just now getting out of the bag, you have a LOT of catching up to do.</p><p><br /></p><p>High-quality counterfeits have been around for a long time, many before I was born. For example, rare &quot;micro-o&quot; Morgan Silver dollars were certified until 2005 when it was finally determined that they were WW1-era counterfeits. In the late 1950s and 1960s, high-quality counterfeits of small US gold coins were coming out of the Middle East. Quite a few of these were Indian Head $2.50 and $5. The &quot;cat&quot; is already &quot;out of the bag&quot;, but this has not significantly deterred the coin market.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why would a counterfeiter from China or elsewhere go to all the added expense and difficulty involved with making small runs of fantasy-date over-strikes when they can more easily produce (in quantity) actual un-marked copies of existing rare coins that aren&#039;t struck on anything other than an anonymous metal blank ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been producing fantasy-date over-strikes since 2010. It is far more difficult than people realize. In these past five years, nobody else has done anything similar. The required investment in education, equipment, and skill is enormous.</p><p><br /></p><p>Claiming that I will somehow be responsible for future counterfeiting by others is like blaming someone for global warming because they left their porch light on.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anything, since my fantasy-date over-strikes are produced out in the open, the study of them will help people identify the characteristics of coins produced using modern technology.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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