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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 2460615, member: 24314"]This is statement is false. The Omega fakes were detected by the presence of "wormy tool marks" (so-named by the authenticator who discovered them). This information has been told/written about over and over in the past and I have promised in another thread to post what I know of it here one day. </p><p> </p><p>The "Omega" fakes were not made in Lebanon. I was told by the Director of ANACS at the time they were discovered (Charles Hoskins) that years before the counterfeit industry in that country was ruined by civil strife. BTW, he knew one of the ANA bigwigs at the time that visited an actual Beirut, Lebanon working counterfeit factory in the late 1960's (If I remember it was Oscar Dodson). They were using the same presses as our government.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 2460615, member: 24314"]This is statement is false. The Omega fakes were detected by the presence of "wormy tool marks" (so-named by the authenticator who discovered them). This information has been told/written about over and over in the past and I have promised in another thread to post what I know of it here one day. The "Omega" fakes were not made in Lebanon. I was told by the Director of ANACS at the time they were discovered (Charles Hoskins) that years before the counterfeit industry in that country was ruined by civil strife. BTW, he knew one of the ANA bigwigs at the time that visited an actual Beirut, Lebanon working counterfeit factory in the late 1960's (If I remember it was Oscar Dodson). They were using the same presses as our government.[/QUOTE]
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