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TexasTowelie

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Thu Oct 28, 2021, 02:42 AM Oct 2021

Feds Seize $441K Worth of Counterfeit Sports Championship Rings

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Cincinnati recently seized a total of $441,000 worth of fake sports championship rings.

CBP says in a press release that the rings were found in three separate shipments. Two shipments were seized Oct. 5, with 94 rings coming from Singapore and United Arad Emirates.

Officials say these “poor-quality rings” would have been worth $141,000 had they been real. They add that the rings were an assortment of “Pittsburgh Penguin Championship rings, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Washington Nationals diamond rings,” according to the release.

On Oct. 13, officers seized a much larger shipment of 200 Los Angeles Dodgers rings from Saudi Arabia. They say this haul would have been worth $300,000 if genuine. This shipment was headed to “private residences in California, Pennsylvania, and Colorado," CBP adds.

Read more: https://www.citybeat.com/news/blog/21157551/us-customs-and-border-protection-seizes-441k-worth-of-counterfeit-baseball-and-hockey-championship-rings-in-cincinnati
(Cincinnati Citybeat)

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Feds Seize $441K Worth of Counterfeit Sports Championship Rings (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2021 OP
I'd guess about 99% of autographed sports memorabilia is counterfeit but I could be wrong... PoliticAverse Oct 2021 #1

PoliticAverse

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1. I'd guess about 99% of autographed sports memorabilia is counterfeit but I could be wrong...
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 08:07 AM
Oct 2021

it might be more than that.

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