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Rest in Peace
 United States
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See how they like to get fined hundreds of thousands, per coin Use the old method. Melt the fakes and bottoms up. |
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New Member
United States
31 Posts |
I have some self-slabbed NIC brand "graded" coins in MS-70 I will send you for your "black" collection for free! LOL
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I was wondering what a black cabinet was, my first guess was the hobby's equivalent to a black mamba, meaning it'll bite you if you give it the light of day, like showing the Feds your 10 1933 Double Eagles... I'm sure I have an unacknowledged fake or two, having collected for so long. Still looking to find my first Henning nickel that would make a great start to a cabinet!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have a couple of trays full of counterfeits, they are common in the coin series I collect. I keep the "contemporary" ones that were made to circulate along with the real ones. I have no use for the cheap chinese garbage but Trout gave me a good idea. Wonder how a chinese Morgan dollar looks after a clean shot with an M91/30 Mosin Nagant? |
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New Member
United States
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I made the joke about the "self-slabbed" coins by NIC(?) I received from IOFFER.com Maybe I should start a new kind of black cabinet collection with these rip-off specimens. They would sit nicely next to my cleaned AU 1879 "MS-67" Morgan "graded" by WCG LOL. At least I only paid for the whole collection it was in...
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Maybe I should start a new kind of black cabinet collection with these rip-off specimens. Sounds like my slab reference collection.) |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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It is essential that you keep all 'black' coins.
Why?
They are the most effective way to educate yourself.
It is much harder to spot a fake, unless you have seen a lot of them.
For this reason, it is good to keep a reference collection of them.
By all means buy them, PROVIDED they are sold as fakes just don't bother to waste your time and money on the obvious ones.
Morally, is is a great shame that we have to maintain a collection of such rubbish. It is a type of 'insurance' that I intensely dislike having to pay, because it means that dishonest people can at least recover some money for their efforts.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I'll bet they make awesome decoys. Everyone should have one. ;)
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