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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1493377, member: 112&quot;]Maybe, that depends on what he is knowledgeable about. </p><p><br /></p><p>I find that people often coin dealers too much credit regarding the extent of their knowledge. Maybe a better way of putting that is that people often have too high of an expectation regarding the knowledge a dealer has.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can tell you this, just about every dealer there is has bought a fake at one time or another, and just about every dealer there is has sold a fake at one time or another. And quite often they never discover that it ever happened.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same is true of collectors. Just about every collector there is owns, or has owned, a fake or two, some own many - and don&#039;t know it.</p><p><br /></p><p>And when I say fake in this context that does not necessarily mean an out and out counterfeit. It also includes altered coins, ie: added/removed mint marks, altered dates, and the like.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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