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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silverlock, post: 3243242, member: 98181&quot;]I started my list years ago after seeing a dealer condemn a coin with a glance. When pressed, he couldn’t say exactly what was wrong with it, but he was as certain as you can be about these things that it was fake. My list is an attempt to quantify what you folks do in your heads, a skill even 50 years on I have not mastered.</p><p><br /></p><p>The hardest thing for me is style. It’s apparantly a dead giveaway when it is wrong (ultimately I concluded that is what the dealer had done), but developing the eye for that has eluded me. Ultimately, I think facial recognition software techniques can and will be applied to coins and art, and faking style will become a lot harder. I also expect a few surprises for coins presently in collections.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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