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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2382105, member: 24314&quot;]Good point.&nbsp; For a while, ALL excellent, &quot;new&quot; counterfeits go undetected.&nbsp; Nevertheless, AFAIK, since 1975, you can count on 1-2 fingers how many types of U.S. counterfeits (excluding ancients and many foreign coins) have gone undetected for very long. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you are referring to the Micro &quot;O&quot; counterfeits on one of those fingers, I have read on several occasions that they were detected around 1993 (almost a century after they entered commerce - but only twenty years after TPGS&#039;s were established) by at least one professional authenticator long before the PCGS study.&nbsp; Thankfully, that study and research by several silver dollar specialists unmasked a larger number of these fakes and die marriages. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>SO, YOU ARE CORRECT.&nbsp; I was trying not to alarm folks or split hairs with the above statement that I stand by.&nbsp; I chose to use the word &quot;virtually.&quot;&nbsp; Once a new counterfeit is detected that has been accepted as genuine in the market it becomes a &quot;virtually undetectable counterfeit.&quot; That&#039;s what is going on now.&nbsp; The TPGS&#039;s and specialists ARE detecting many previous &quot;virtually undetectable&quot; fakes - especially in the 1/2 Cent and Large Cent series.&nbsp; As I wrote somewhere (?) before - it is taking months to do this rather than years!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; So, IMO, we are still not quite at the point of &quot;undetectable&quot; counterfeits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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