Interesting link on counterfeits from China...

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• lathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭

  October 16, 2008 7:39AM

  If you were a poor Chinese person and you had to make the choice of earning 11¢ an hour planting rice by hand in a muddy field or making a few hundred bucks a week making greedy Americans happy thinking they're getting steals on rare coins.........
  Which would you do?
  You'd do the same as they do, and make the Americans happy, while providing a better life for your family.
  
  Ray

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 44,039 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 16, 2008 7:47AM

  
  
  << <i> If you were a poor Chinese person and you had to make the choice of earning 11¢ an hour planting rice by hand in a muddy field or making a few hundred bucks a week making greedy Americans happy thinking they're getting steals on rare coins.........
  Which would you do?
  You'd do the same as they do, and make the Americans happy, while providing a better life for your family.
  
  Ray >>
  
  I seriously doubt they think they're "making the Americans happy", as much as I doubt they're making "a few hundred bucks a week", but yeah, I suppose it beats some of the other work alternatives if you're a poor Chinese person.
  
  That's been linked to several times here (in fact, I think I was the last who reposted it), but it's definitely an interesting article and those pictures speak the proverbial thousand words.

  Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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• CoinOnTheCob Posts: 712

  October 16, 2008 7:50AM

  It seems to me that the operation would be short lived. Are all these coins being sold on eBay? It seems that any eBay account selling these coins would have a lot of negs or a feedback rating of only one or two.
  
  I see that these are higher-quality fakes but that can’t last long without detection.
  

  

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