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Engraved copper plates?? Its OBVIOUSLY the Angel Moroni's scratch copy!

And evidence of prehistoric Mormonism!//////

Not surprisingly, you're behind the eight-ball by more than a century. The Mormons were highly intrigued by the plates and did indeed believe them to left by from the angel Moroni. In fact, most of the artifacts are in the care of the Mormon Church these days which is fine with me because at least they are in good hands. I trust the Mormons will preserve them at all costs. The man who organized the collecting of the plates and artifacts in Michigan, however, was a Catholic priest. He would be a very strange Catholic priest who would forge thousands of artifacts to simply fool the Mormons.