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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3243646, member: 82322&quot;]The ANS has a black cabinet.&nbsp; Last year I visited to attend their seminar on counterfeits.&nbsp; I snapped pictures of the Black Sea Hoard dies which are a special interest of mine.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://digitalhn.blogspot.com/2017/09/black-sea-hoard-dies.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://digitalhn.blogspot.com/2017/09/black-sea-hoard-dies.html" rel="nofollow">https://digitalhn.blogspot.com/2017/09/black-sea-hoard-dies.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Ute Wartenberg explained that the best way to recognize counterfeits is to practice with the real coins, not with the fakes.&nbsp; If you practice with the fakes you may learn the style of an individual counterfeiter.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was lucky to attend the ANS seminar on counterfeits and also all of the seminars from the ISBCC (International Bureau for the Suppression of Counterfeit Coins) during the years when they had open meetings at the New York International.&nbsp; (They still have meetings at the New York International but it is no longer possible to attend except as an IAPN dealer.&nbsp; If anyone can make me an honorary dealer for a day let me know).</p><p><br /></p><p>My trick to detecting counterfeits is knowing what genuine coins look like at different magnifications.&nbsp; The coin should look genuine at a distance, up close, with 10x, and with 15x loupes.&nbsp; Very few coins look good at all of these magnifications.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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