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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BigsWick, post: 530163, member: 3534&quot;]I once heard COAs described as worthless pieces of paper. I think that is true in a lot of cases. For example, many of the ones that come with coins purchased off of TV shows or from the various &quot;mints&quot; (not THE US Mint) are pretty generic, only stating that the seller guarantees the coin, whatever it is, to be authentic. Sometimes the COA doesn&#039;t give the denomination of the coin, and it certainly doesn&#039;t get specific enough to give the date and mintmark. Call me jaded, but I&#039;ve often felt that they do this to make a buyer feel more at ease with his purchase yet at the same time giving them a way to avoid any type of claim against them for selling a counterfeit coin, or even one that was misgraded. The COA is too non specific for a reason. Moreover, I&#039;ve seen many of the same COAs used for multiple series and multiple denominations of coins too, both silver and gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best thing for you to do is to become very familiar with whatever it is you are collecting. A COA is a COA. It isn&#039;t going to tell you that the coin looks right, feels right, weighs properly, grades correctly, and so forth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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