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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2990461, member: 24314&quot;]Perhaps, [USER=20480]@ToughCOINS[/USER] has a point.&nbsp; However, [USER=23778]@sakata[/USER] is 100% correct.&nbsp; PM = &quot;private message.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>When ANACS was founded in the 1970&#039;s and started discovering that counterfeit and altered coins made up a huge part of their business the Director and the ANA Board of Governors had a dilemma.&nbsp; What to do to protect the public.&nbsp; The service was already sending coins back as fakes but the submitters wanted to know why they were called bad.&nbsp; One powerful group said to keep everything secret as the diagnostics would get back to the counterfeiters.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other powerful group wanted ANACS to publish all the diagnostics.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note:&nbsp; It turns out (possibly as Toughcoins believes) the first group was correct.&nbsp; Just a year later, when the ANACS instructor told about fifteen students (and no one else anywhere) how to spot a very dangerous $10 Indian fake - about two months later the identical C/F&#039;s came in with the defect removed!!!&nbsp; We joked that one of the counterfeiters may have been in the class.</p><p><br /></p><p>The solution was to tell just a little.&nbsp; For example, I learned that NGC (and I suspect the other three) do just that even today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, this debate hardly matters anymore. This is why: From what I&#039;ve seen/heard in class, the best counterfeiters don&#039;t need any help as they already have been making almost perfect counterfeit coins for several years!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>At this time, with the help of specialized collectors, the &quot;perfect&quot; counterfeits are eventually being caught.&nbsp; Anyway, I hope so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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