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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ziggy29, post: 31197, member: 1113&quot;]The quickest way to rule this out, other than knowing what all the different PCGS slabs look like, is to know that they use &quot;AU58,&quot; not &quot;MS58.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Beyond that, one way to tell quickly if it *might* be real or if it&#039;s *definitely* a fake is in the code below the grade.&nbsp; This one says:</p><p><br /></p><p>3578.65/7980418</p><p><br /></p><p>The number to the right of the slash is the certificate number.&nbsp; You can look up the cert number at the PCGS web site at <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/verify.chtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/verify.chtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/verify.chtml</a>.&nbsp; In this case, you can quickly see it&#039;s bogus -- Entering &quot;7980418&quot; in the box, you&#039;ll see that cert 7980418 belongs to a Proof 69 South Carolina state quarter.</p><p><br /></p><p>But let&#039;s pretend this lookup succeeded and that the certificate indicated that this was an 1800 bust dollar.&nbsp; To the left of the slash in the code, we see</p><p><br /></p><p>3578.65</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;3578&quot; is the coin number as catalogued by PCGS.&nbsp; It&#039;s trial and error to find it, but PCGS&#039;s price guide at <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/prices/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/prices/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/prices/</a></p><p>shows that the coin associated with PCGS #3578 is a red 1864 Large Motto 2-cent piece (look it up here:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/prices/frame.chtml?type=date&amp;filename=two_three_cent" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/prices/frame.chtml?type=date&amp;filename=two_three_cent" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/prices/frame.chtml?type=date&amp;filename=two_three_cent</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>Mismatch.&nbsp; Assume it&#039;s fake.&nbsp; And finally, the &quot;.65&quot; means the grade PCGS assigned was 65.&nbsp; So in this case, &quot;3578.65&quot; *truly* refers to an MS-65RD 1864 Large Motto Two Cent piece.&nbsp; Be VERY wary -- and assume something&#039;s almost certainly wrong -- if the coin being offered with that identifier is NOT that coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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