Counterfit Coins

The secret Service would be driven around the twist if the TPG's reported every coin they considered fake.
Their existing policies under the circumstances are OK.

I collect fake coins
PROVIDED
they are sold to me as a fake.

Why?

I have learnt a great deal about the identification of fake coins just by close study of my own 'black' collection.

If I see a coin that is posted here on the CCF that I consider to be a fake, I will not comment on it unless the initiator of the thread has asked for an opinion.
The reason for this, has to do with the fact that in order to come to a reasonably considered opinion, you should really examine the coin in hand very carefully.

How can you spot a fake, unless you educate yourself in knowing what to look out for?

This is one of the important ways any dealer worth his salt becomes experienced in the identification of fakes.

Even then, I will ask the originator of the thread some questions that will help him make his own assessment as the the authenticity of the coin in question, and perhaps add some comments for consideration.

So would a counterfeiter fake an old, rare coin to make a single windfall, or would they produce many bad dollar coins (or possibly quartersut) to try to spread the "wealth" out? Seems to me SS would be mostly interested in the latter but I don't know.

Celtic I would assume they would be more interested in the person who made the extremely valuable fake, but if the mass producer is doing significant volume I think they would honestly go after both. They wont ignore the single coin if it has significant value, but even unvaluable coins in mass quantity can do damage and as a whole reach significant value.

Im sure they get flooded with reports and do try and look into them all, but we know at some point they have to start prioritizing as they dont have an unending supply of man hours

Carl Id heard about that 1 dollar bill guy before. Its funny how if you stick to things like that you could more than likely get away with it for years, people just get greedy