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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 7428541, member: 21705&quot;]My specialty is Copper, so some of what I know might not cross over to silver. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do know there is usually a mother coin with transfer dies which usually has some PMD that transfers to all strikes from those dies. Jack D. Young calls them &quot;sister marks.&quot; He&#039;s about the most expert guy i know when dealing with counterfeits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since I can&#039;t usually tell the difference, other than something doesn&#039;t seem quite right on coins I spend a LOT of time on, I&#039;m fascinated by how he does it.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I&#039;d like to know more about the bubbles created by the process of creating a transfer die. Large Cents are usually Aged and tumbled in an attempt to hide their fakeness. So with both real and counterfeits having similar unique PMD marks, it&#039;s just beyond me.</p><p><br /></p><p>At some point you just have to have the coin in hand AND know what to look for. Then hope you&#039;re not fooled by the really good fakes. Of course, it is easier if the counterfeiters use materials&nbsp; which are different than the mint standards. But that isn&#039;t often the case with the most recent fakes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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