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I happened upon this article after noticing a link to it in an article on my watchlist. There's no question. This is a fraud, joke article, not existant. Such a huge quantity of fake gold pieces would lead to a few refs on Google, right? Nothing except mirror sites. If the fakes are prized, they
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