Should There Be A New Subforum For "Is This Counterfeit"

I wholeheartedly concur. The strong demand, as evidenced by numerous postings, for a counterfeit and/or an even "suspected fake" category is obviously needed. This constant outpour of counterfeit postings is diluting the subject matter herein, namely "US Classic and Colonial Coins" .... Just my Two Cents.

My feeling is that there isn't much traffic on this sub-forum as it is, so a few counterfeit questions doesn't hurt. I think the fakes belong with the sub-forum of the type of coin it is. That's where they'll get the most knowledge specific to the questionable coin. Scroll down 20-25 posts and the last response was a week ago. It's not like this forum is being overwhelmed.

I'd like to see a separate forum for fakes. I generally don't read those threads and they take up too much space.

I agree that many times people don't know their coin is counterfeit until someone tells them. So then moving their post to a separate counterfeit forum seems awkward. And what if there's a mixed verdict about it?

There was a secret counterfeits forum for a while that required permission to see it. Did that disappear or did I lose my privileges?

I find this hard to believe. You're either interested in US Classical and Colonial or you aren't. As part of my interest, I like to see the counterfeits or questions about them. Is it Chinese junk, is it really good and hard to determine, is it contemporary, is it real and someone just doesn't know how to tell? It's mid-morning where I am and there's 3 new posts there since yesterday. It's not like the sub-forum is "too crowded."

Well then, if the status quo is to be maintained, I'd humbly suggest adding SUSPECTED FAKES & COUNTERFEITS to the topic description. In fact, as this issue tends to dominate the category, perhaps this should head the category?

I've got a fairly substantial black cabinet, myself. I'd not before considered posting them here, as I didn't want to muddy the pond.

I just looked at all the other major coin forums and only the NGC boards have a separate counterfeits forum. There hasn't been a single comment or post in it in almost 3 weeks. It's basically dead, all the counterfeit topics are in the main forum.



I also checked the US Classic home page. I counted 23 titles with fake and/or counterfeit in the title. 23 out of 150. 15.3 % is hardly "overtaken" or a "constant outpour," or "dominating."