I have never experienced this so-called rudeness and I am a newbie. I have seen nothing but kindness. I have a pretty thick skin, if I ask a stupid question I want to know I did. Just going to say this, I think "tourist
fake" is a super useful term. It differentiates between serious
forgeries and replicas. Something sold as a real coin is not a
replica. I think my first post here was about a coin I bought in Ghazni, Afghanistan, while deployed there in 2011. The person responding didn't say "tourist
fake," but it was oblivious that is what I
had bought. They did say it was a very obvious modern
cast. Pretty much the same thing. I wasn't offended, I suspected it was
fake when I bought it. I guess I could have been offended by what they said, but I wasn't. I was happy to know it was a
fake. Even though Afghanistan isn't a tourist haven, soldiers there are essentially just that in many ways. Tourist
fake has a distinct meaning to me and I appreciate its use. Just my two denari.
Virgil