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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1094954, member: 112&quot;]You do it the same way you do with any coin, you weigh them, you measure them and you observe them. But unless you are really well versed with the coins in question you have a 50/50 shot or less of being right unless they are really very poor fakes. </p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s simply too much to know for the average collector to have much chance of being right. Transfer dies will often copy all the diagnostics of a genuine coin. And if they do then you have to know the specific diagnostics like tiny repeating depressions or raised bumps in specific locations to be able to identify a known fake. And when you throw in the modern Chinese fakes, you might as well flip a coin to determine authenticity.</p><p><br /></p><p>About the best thing I could say would be this - if you have to ask that question, you can&#039;t do it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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