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THE RED BOOK KNOCKOFF PUBLISHING DATERegarding one of the images from the counterfeit Red Book, Ken Spindler writes: I'm pretty sure you have the image of the Chinese page of the copied book from Taiwan upside-down. Ken Berger writes: You definitely have the Chinese page upside down. How do I know? Well, besides being able to recognize Chinese characters, I can also recognize western-style numbers. Note the 56. Taiwan dating starts with 1911 (the first year of the Republic). The 56 refers to the year, which is 1911 + 56 = 1967.
Thanks.
The orientation was my fault - sorry.
Below are the original and rotated images.
The "56" is on the next-to-last line of the corrected image, fifth character from the left. Look close!
-Editor
Original and corrected images
Counterfeiting is still with us in today's digital world. An E-Sylum reader alerted me to an eBay seller offering CDs of pirated .pdf copies of coin books and catalogs from Whitman Publishing and Krause Publications. Thanks! I in turn quickly notified the publishers.
-Editor
Dennis Tucker of Whitman Publishing writes: We informed the eBay seller that he was infringing Whitman’s copyright and violating our trademark registration, and he removed the listing. Naturally we take this kind of thing very seriously --- a lot of time, energy, and work goes into developing a book’s intellectual property and maintaining its value.
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