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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 8183865, member: 21705&quot;]Regardless of the motive, identifying the counterfeits benefits everyone except the counterfeiters, their co-conspirators and their first victims. </p><p><br /></p><p>The last is the only one I have sympathy for. </p><p><br /></p><p>I cannot identify counterfeits so the chances I have pick up one along the way are pretty good; however, since I mostly concentrate on the rarer varieties, my odds are better than typical since the counterfeiters seem to focus on higher grade common &quot;mother&#039;&quot; coins for their transfer dies and then clean them up or do their artificial aging on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually purchased one coin which was suspect believing it to be genuine. Now I&#039;ve forgotten which one. I intended to give it to Jack if it turned out to be counterfeit, but I have to hope it&#039;s genuine instead.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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