Commentary Despite assurances that it would crackdown on counterfeit goods and intellectual property flowing from its country, communist China continues to reap billions from the sale of fake merchandise and it’s now affecting an area of the U.S. economy that many would not suspect. Multiple studies have shown that little appears to significantly stem the tidal wave of bogus goods leaving cargo ships each and every day from any number of Chinese ports of call or by mail. While most of the public focus has been on tennis shoes, luxury watches, handbags, clothes, cosmetics, cell phones and computer software, there has also been what some consider a direct attack on the financial markets through the numismatic industry. In the past few years, I’ve reviewed several customers’ coin collections and sadly detected one or more counterfeit coins. In one instance, the majority of one person’s collection consisted of counterfeit proof Buffalo …