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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 681619, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Know your dealer.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>See here a <a href="http://coins.about.com/od/worldcoins/ig/Chinese-Counterfeiting-Ring/Fake-Chinese-Coin-Dies.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.about.com/od/worldcoins/ig/Chinese-Counterfeiting-Ring/Fake-Chinese-Coin-Dies.htm" rel="nofollow">long-running story on Coins.About.Com</a>.&nbsp; When you view the slides, note the SLQs and dies for SLQs.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Cloudsweeper99 must have been joking and we just missed the humor.&nbsp; Everyone knows that fake Bust Halves are common, both as contemporary counterfeits and as commodities for the collector markets.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have to question GDJMSP, though.&nbsp; While I agree that in times gone by, counterfeiters made coins to spend, today, the output of fakes far exceeds anything imagined before.&nbsp; I just finished reading <i>Newton and the Counterfeiter</i> by Thomas Levenson.&nbsp; William Chaloner was arguably the most successful counterfeiter circa 1700 and his lifetime output would be matched in a month by the Chinese factory shown in Coins.About -- and that is just one such source. </p><p><br /></p><p>The plastic encapsulations of reputable graders have been faked.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe that the collector markets are totally polluted. Trust is a supreme value.&nbsp; I would never buy any numismatic collectible from someone whom I did not know first hand, face to face, from local conventions and shows.&nbsp; They would have to be reputable within that community, ANA members, etc., able at once to know the difference and morally (and commercially) obligated to stand behind their attributions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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