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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 8083939, member: 24314"]Morgandude11, posted: "The best description is <b>crudely struck</b>, in my opinion."</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Exactly.</b> I was just clarifying what you posted and did not do a very good job. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <i>You never said it was a cast</i> and I did not make that clear enough to other members. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is exactly what went on in the late 1960s and early 1970s when I was a rookie authenticator. It seemed as if everyone - even the most well known coin authenticator of the time - was calling the crude, newly struck gold counterfeit coins on the market castings! That's because they looked die cast. </p><p><br /></p><p>Although their fakes were fooling most people; it was explained to me, that the best counterfeiters had the exact same coining press but their coins looked horrible (to a trained authenticator) because they did not use the same die preparation or steel; did not know the correct press tonnage; and did not use the same alloy of gold. At the time, the Mint kept any technical information about their process secret.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 8083939, member: 24314"]Morgandude11, posted: "The best description is [B]crudely struck[/B], in my opinion." [B] Exactly.[/B] I was just clarifying what you posted and did not do a very good job. :( [I]You never said it was a cast[/I] and I did not make that clear enough to other members. This is exactly what went on in the late 1960s and early 1970s when I was a rookie authenticator. It seemed as if everyone - even the most well known coin authenticator of the time - was calling the crude, newly struck gold counterfeit coins on the market castings! That's because they looked die cast. Although their fakes were fooling most people; it was explained to me, that the best counterfeiters had the exact same coining press but their coins looked horrible (to a trained authenticator) because they did not use the same die preparation or steel; did not know the correct press tonnage; and did not use the same alloy of gold. At the time, the Mint kept any technical information about their process secret.[/QUOTE]
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