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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 4036423, member: 101855&quot;]Counterfeits in general, and the Chinese ones in particular, have done a lot of damage to the hobby. They are even counterfeiting the certification holders and putting their counterfeits in them. The quickest way to drive off a new collector is have to tell him or her that they have been taken for a few hundred dollars by a counterfeit coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>National mints, including our own, are hurting the hobby too. You simply can’t keep up with all this junk, and it’s turning reference books into expensive and unwieldy phone books with all of the ridiculous listings for this numismatic foolishness. The Red Book is getting overwhelmed with this stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>Spink has the right idea for cataloguing British coinage. Their annual price guide is divided into two books. The hardcover book covers the pre-decimal coinage. The softcover book covers everything after the decimal system of coinage was introduced. I keep the first book and sell the second one for a nominal amount because virtually nothing in it interests me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wish the Red Book would do that. The break point could be the year 2000.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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