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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2289394, member: 74282&quot;]Whenever I get this question, my answer is generally &quot;because I&#039;ve spent a lot of time studying these and I believe it is genuine&quot;. If it&#039;s someone I honestly believe is interested in discussing it, I will go into things like die matches I know of(I usually look at the ANS, British Museum, RBW, etc and record what I find), style, fabric, mineral deposits, provenance, etc. I usually spend a while looking over coins I am considering buying and doing the basic research, regardless of their source, to try to figure out if the style, weight, etc is consistent and check that it doesn&#039;t match any known fakes. Then, usually within a week of getting the coin in-hand it gets catalogued and goes under the microscope to look for signs of casting, tooling, etc and I also look for die matches in collections online. After that, usually once or twice a month, I take all my recent purchases and spend a few hours seeing if I can find any provenance that wasn&#039;t originally supplied and verify any provenance that was given(and record any die matches I find in old catalogs). At the end of all this, if anything has changed I print new tags and replace the original ones I catalogued with. In a few cases I&#039;ve contacted various experts on specific types as well looking for more info. At the end of the day, this process convinces me of a coin&#039;s authenticity, or lack thereof, and the results are a little different for every single one in my collection so there is no &quot;one size fits all&quot; answer to the question but most people don&#039;t care enough to hear about every single little detail so they get the summary above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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