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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 7874753, member: 84905&quot;]I have never heard about this black light method. It may work, unless the restorer uses ancient gold as raw material.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the die match, I suppose the restorer may have modelled the letters after a die match or if the letters differ slightly we may conclude that it is from very similar but slightly different or slightly more worn dies. Even two coins from the same dies can look quite differently, if the dies have out in the minting process.</p><p><br /></p><p>And in any case these methods of detection would only be employed if there is an initial doubt about the coin. If not it would most likely pass undetected.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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