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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 4614323, member: 26302"]Makes a person feel better. I could not see much of the fake, just that it was too red but was a DD, (purportedly). Good thing the good fake coin people evidently are not talking yet to the good fake slab people. I saw some SL quarters a couple years ago at a show that would give me pause, and they were raw so I could inspect better. Random dates, nothing key, but all nice MS grades. I know those coins, and there was just BARELY enough I could tell they weren't ok. The seller, after me looking and looking, asking questions, FINALLY admitted they were fakes. He didn't have any notice though that they were, no "not for sale" sign, or anything else. I became suspicious, so became "interested" in a nearby table's coins. Many people came up, not one did he tell them they were fakes, and one man purchased one. I do not know the price, but I reported the dealer to the show organizer later. If any of those quite good fakes were in THAT slab, trouble. I am sure we have experts here who see thousands of these a day and could have spotted them in 10 seconds, but someone who collected them for years they were NOT EASY to spot. No one else in this regional show spotted them as fakes as far as I saw.[/QUOTE]