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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2397839, member: 1892&quot;]Counterfeiting in the Age of Ebay is not like what you&#039;ve learned from the past. These days, fakes don&#039;t_need to be accurate. They need to move in 24-hour listings with Buy It Nows of $69.99 to unknowing gamblers willing to take a chance on what they think to be a seller who doesn&#039;t know what they have. So, you throw a reasonable facsimile together, brush it to hide some of the fakery - and maybe explain why it&#039;s not in a slab to someone who&#039;s already in the process of talking themselves into it - and move it <b>fast</b>. </p><p><br /></p><p>I - and anyone who&#039;s been paying fairly close attention the last 10 years or so to online forums - have seen dozens of counterfeits just like it, from all kinds of different issues. Almost always presented by relatively new collectors. </p><p><br /></p><p>Or perhaps you&#039;d like to explain why someone would want to brush the faces of a noble metal coin so strongly? What could have stained it? What wouldn&#039;t wash off of <b>gold</b>? And if it was *that* bad, why is there absolutely no sign whatsoever of anything clinging to the smallest nooks and crannies of the coin? </p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ve seen harshly brushed coins before. How many of them were rendered <i>perfectly</i> clean like this one?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Think. </b>The world is changing, man. You gotta keep up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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