Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 8667215, member: 24314&quot;]Yes and no.&nbsp; Long time authenticators have seen the quality of fakes improve over the decades.&nbsp; Thus, very often we can to pin-point the general time a gold C/F was struck by determining the specific type of defects on it.&nbsp;&nbsp; For example, the &quot;wormy tool mark&quot; era lasted until the mid-1970&#039;s.&nbsp; Silver C/F are harder to determine.&nbsp; Specific C/F can be dated by the release of C/F alerts for each of them.&nbsp; AFAIK, no one cares about the crude Chinese fakes - only the deceptive ones that get past the TPGS for a short time.&nbsp; If it were not for the efforts of Jim Young and his group plus a few other collectors, many of the very deceptive Chinese fakes might still be going undetected![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in