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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cdb1950, post: 37672, member: 1735&quot;]Attached is a photo of a piece I keep in my pocket, a replica of the very rare 1796 U.S. silver dollar.&nbsp; There are more of these fakes around than the real coins, yet this looks <i>very much</i> like the real thing.&nbsp; These are being minted every day, legally, right here in the U.S., and hundreds of other fake rare coins are being minted all over the world.&nbsp; If you come across a rare coin, the odds are it could be one of these fakes simply because there are so many more fakes than real coins.&nbsp; That is why the third party grading companies do such a booming business authenticating the rare coins and exposing the fakes because it is so hard to tell the difference.&nbsp; An experienced numismatist knows this and can’t make an intelligent decision about a coin without seeing it, sometimes actually having the coin in hand to examine.</p><p><br /></p><p>A coin as described in this thread could be either a faked error or any of a number of different mint errors.&nbsp; To say anything else would simply be guessing without a photo to be sure.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Experience is a hard teacher.&nbsp; It tests first then teaches.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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