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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Beefer518, post: 2895873, member: 87737&quot;]I&#039;m going to sound like (no, I&#039;m going to be one) a jerk about this.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have someone (the OP&#039;s friend) who is strongly considering spending $500 on something he obviously knows absolutely nothing about, and is not even willing to do any research whatsoever except &quot;ask my friend who knows coins&quot;, and (not to attack the OP), but that coin friend is not (or doesn&#039;t seem to have) enough numismatic expertise in Trade Dollars to answer the question without having to research it himself (kudos to the OP for that).</p><p><br /></p><p>If this friend would spend about 6 minutes doing his own research, he would have not only known that this is a poor fake, but probably learned enough to get him started in the right direction if he&#039;s interested in obtaining a nice Trade dollar. And found the resources to verify authenticity, condition, and value (all to a point) of his next potential purchase.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would have just shook my head had the OP&#039;s friend bought this coin, and came on here bragging &quot;Look what I bought!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>People will spend weeks researching which is the best TV/refrigerator/phone etc., all of which have limited life, and nothing but depreciating value, but look how many don&#039;t do 1/10th the research in coins? That&#039;s evidence by the number &quot;unsearched&quot; rolls of cents are sold on a weekly basis on ebay.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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