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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1609130, member: 26302&quot;]Rob, the only thing to protect you against fakes is knowledge and skepticism. Knowledge would include reading about other threads here and other publications on the modern fakes, having tools like a good scale and caliper to make sure the coin is exactly in spec, getting good books on Morgans that will go over things like reed counts for certain issues, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Skepticism would be &quot;why would someone who knows this is a rare date advertise to the general public instead of simply taking a valuable coin to a dealer or consign it to auction?&quot;. I buy what I consider good deals but its because I know more about the coin than the seller, something MUCH harder to do with US coins. Unless you are a major VAM collector you do not know more about this coin most likely than the seller. Why then, the &quot;great deal&quot;? I know I won&#039;t sell a coin way under the market to someone I don&#039;t know just because I am a nice guy, I doubt many people would. That itself would cause me to look at this coin 1000 different ways, and get others opinions about it, before considering purchasing it.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the coin itself, like I have said its hard with just a photo. I will say it appears to have the same &quot;shen&quot;, or total look of the coin, of other really good fakes I have seen lately like 1916 SL quarters and rare date morgans. Its the surface, it just doesn&#039;t &quot;pop&quot; like it should, almost like a BU coin that has been messed with a little. That is the best I can describe it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope that helps, and hope you continue participating in CT.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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