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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;djaeon, post: 1714512, member: 26634&quot;]This isn&#039;t my worst buy, but a story about my father-in-law who sparked my interest in coin collecting.&nbsp; We were at a swap-meet (I&#039;m sure many bad stories start with that line).&nbsp; After visiting the lady that he liked to buy old &quot;junk&quot; Morgan&#039;s from mainly for their bullion value, his coin collecting is primarily for bullion value, we were walking down the aisle and came across someone with a bunch of silver dollars for sale.&nbsp; It was one of those garage sale type spaces, where it looked like someone was just clearing out a bunch of their old junk.&nbsp; He had trade dollars &amp; CC Morgans which my father-in-law got all excited about.&nbsp; He bought 10-15 of these coins at $4 a piece, saying that was a great deal and these coins were pretty rare.&nbsp; When we got home, he asked me to look them up on the computer, which he didn&#039;t use, to see if I could find out what these particular coins were worth.&nbsp; At first, I got pretty excited because the first couple coins I looked up were very rare and worth a lot of money.&nbsp; Then I started to run into a few that didn&#039;t look like there was any record of being minted in the years that I had.&nbsp; For a split second, I though &quot;Wow, these must be REALLY rare!&quot;&nbsp; But then I thought better of that, and thought they might be fake.&nbsp; So I started looking up info on fake coins, and found that they were all Chinese forgeries.&nbsp; That was very disappointing.&nbsp; This was right before I got interested in coins, otherwise I would have warned him away from this buy.&nbsp; Actually, doing the research on these fakes played a part in getting me interested.&nbsp; And thankfully he was only out $4 a piece on them.&nbsp; It could have been a lot worse, and at least now he has examples of fake coins to compare with.&nbsp; I hope he kept them and didn&#039;t just toss them in the trash![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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