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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 2440780, member: 77814&quot;]I&#039;m in several online communities.&nbsp; one of which is a facebook buy/sell coin auctions.</p><p><br /></p><p>These past several weeks a buyer was purchasing pre33 gold coins.</p><p>Apparently after a few purchases the buyer would send them off to be graded.</p><p>But in the last purchases after being sent into PCGS, 2 were identified as counterfeit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently the width, weight, etc is all correct.&nbsp; These coins were made in Lebanon with exacting specifications.</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS apparently has some device/process to identify these fakes as this buyer and an ANA member could not identify anything wrong with the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>So now I&#039;m wondering if the big companies like APMEX and ProvidentMetals, etc, if their raw gold coins themselves could be counterfeit.</p><p><br /></p><p>And whether if only PCGS can identify these, or whether the other grading companies can too?</p><p><br /></p><p>With reading about so many counterfeit everything lately it diminishes the coin collecting enthusiasm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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