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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 8639607, member: 24314"]As some of you know, many of us collect counterfeit coins. Contemporary counterfeits of foreign coins and U.S. Colonials are often valued more than their genuine counterpart.</p><p><br /></p><p>One "famous" counterfeit U.S. gold coin is the 1907 "Omega" High Relief $20. These coins usually sell for over their bullion price due to their novelty and story.</p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">We'll just now, I'm grading a modern struck counterfeit of that fifty-year-old fake. Unfortunately, for the submitter who sent it in to be slabbed in our yellow label Educational Only slab as an "Omega" fake, it is going to be put in a slab as simply <b>not genuine</b>. Consider this as a warning that there must be many of these entering the market. I'm going to have images made and will post them next week.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #b30000"><b>UPDATE: There is not enough of the "Omega" Type diagnostics still visible to consider this a copy of fake! </b></span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #b30000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">This will go out as a normal C/F HR $20</span></font> [/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 8639607, member: 24314"]As some of you know, many of us collect counterfeit coins. Contemporary counterfeits of foreign coins and U.S. Colonials are often valued more than their genuine counterpart. One "famous" counterfeit U.S. gold coin is the 1907 "Omega" High Relief $20. These coins usually sell for over their bullion price due to their novelty and story. [SIZE=3] We'll just now, I'm grading a modern struck counterfeit of that fifty-year-old fake. Unfortunately, for the submitter who sent it in to be slabbed in our yellow label Educational Only slab as an "Omega" fake, it is going to be put in a slab as simply [B]not genuine[/B]. Consider this as a warning that there must be many of these entering the market. I'm going to have images made and will post them next week. [/SIZE] [SIZE=5][COLOR=#b30000][B]UPDATE: There is not enough of the "Omega" Type diagnostics still visible to consider this a copy of fake! [/B] [B][/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000]This will go out as a normal C/F HR $20[/COLOR][/SIZE][B][SIZE=6][COLOR=rgb(179, 0, 0)] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][/QUOTE]
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