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ome days the world seems upside-down with seemingly genuine coins being fakes and absolutely genuine coins judged to be counterfeits. This column is a tale of both. I don’t wish to scare readers as I have experienced what fear and misinformation can do to an entire series of coins. In the 1970s, one distinguished coin authenticator nearly killed the demand for British Trade dollars and Pillar dollars in this country by his published assertions that there were very deceptive fakes being sold as genuine everywhere in the