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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 2845907, member: 24314"]I love it! So far, only [USER=74818]@britannia40[/USER] has backed up his opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>I cannot magnify the images so the coins look genuine. These days, <b>that means nothing.</b> The "good" counterfeits are too deceptive to detect except by experts. For over a decade, our country has been flooded with excellent fakes that have been bought, sold, and slabbed as genuine. Anything that is this nice looking (whether genuine or C/F) is going to weigh correctly and NOT be magnetic. The crude magnetic counterfeits are so poorly made that they can be detected with your eyes alone if you know what the surface and sharpness of a genuine Chinese coin looks like.</p><p><br /></p><p>One other problem: There are so many different varieties of these coins that I cannot remember ever seeing two coins struck from the same die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 2845907, member: 24314"]I love it! So far, only [USER=74818]@britannia40[/USER] has backed up his opinion. I cannot magnify the images so the coins look genuine. These days, [B]that means nothing.[/B] The "good" counterfeits are too deceptive to detect except by experts. For over a decade, our country has been flooded with excellent fakes that have been bought, sold, and slabbed as genuine. Anything that is this nice looking (whether genuine or C/F) is going to weigh correctly and NOT be magnetic. The crude magnetic counterfeits are so poorly made that they can be detected with your eyes alone if you know what the surface and sharpness of a genuine Chinese coin looks like. One other problem: There are so many different varieties of these coins that I cannot remember ever seeing two coins struck from the same die.[/QUOTE]
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