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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;National dealer, post: 24542, member: 487&quot;]The counterfeits are certainly getting better. At the ANA show held in Atlanta a few years back, I was permitted to see a Sacagawea Dollar believed to have been counterfeited by one of the small governments in South America. At the time, the coin had not been analyzed to determine the exact metal content, but it looked fabulous. The coin was off in weight just a little. Certainly not enough to tell by hand. Little die characteristics could be seen in the coin as the dies had been transferred from an original coin. </p><p>This coin was obviously made to fool merchants more than collectors, but the point is that counterfeits are getting better and so is the equiptment to make them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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