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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 7811994, member: 24314&quot;]<i><font size="5">dougsmit, asked:&nbsp; &quot;Has anyone seen any offers of owls that are die matches to each other?&nbsp; I realize there must be 10,000 dies (literal or Chinese [萬] usage) but I would have expected the hoard to have included some duplicates.&nbsp; Maybe I have not been paying attention but I have not seen it.&quot; </font></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Excellent question best answered by the original owners of the lot (if they are not involved in selling fakes).&nbsp; In the past, counterfeit coins of any type are eventually detected.&nbsp; In some cases it has taken several decades.&nbsp; I&#039;ll guarantee that there are still fakes out there that are considered genuine at this time.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the past, the majority of any very deceptive fake has been detected by matching defects on several examples.&nbsp; Doing this has even lead to detecting an entire &quot;family&quot; of counterfeits made from several die combinations no one even questioned either until the first &quot;link&quot; in the family was questioned.</p><p><br /></p><p>We all know that the quality of counterfeits continues to improve.&nbsp; While not practical except for ancients, very soon (if not already) making fakes that are not exact duplicates will be like spitting out popcorn at the movie theater.&nbsp; Once this happens, it will become virtually impossible to detect a high grade modern fake ancient made from melted down genuine coins of the same type and time period.&nbsp; That will remove one of the prime methods used in my lifetime to detect counterfeits - repeating defects.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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