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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 834448, member: 112&quot;]Typically everybody blames ebay as being how most of these coins get into the public&#039;s hands. But what about all the coin dealers that sell them in their shops and at shows ? I suspect that there are as many, and maybe even more fakes sold via dealers than there is on ebay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Matt I&#039;ll give you this much regarding new legislation. As it is now, it is only illegal to make or import fake coins in the present time, or since Nov. 1973.</p><p><br /></p><p>But there is no law, at least none that I know of, that makes fakes made prior to that date illegal to own. So - that leaves a gaping loophole. For how do we prove <u>when</u> a coin was made ? </p><p><br /></p><p>And passing a new law that makes it illegal to own any countrfeits is going to run smack into huge roadblock from the collecting community itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just as De Orc recommends making it illegal to import any coins - the collecting community is fighting tooth and nail, as we speak, against laws that make it illegal to importcoins from just 3 countries ! Can you imagine the outcry if it was all countries ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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