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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4846053, member: 82322&quot;]In Wayne Sayles&#039; book _Classical Deception_, page 55, he talks about a disagreement between authenticators was resolved in 1963 when the fakes were shown to be 2% smaller than other coins of the same die.</p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, highly deceptive in the 1950s</p><p><br /></p><p>Sayles&#039; book doesn&#039;t say how they were compared.&nbsp; I would guess photographs printed on transparencies but even that is hard -- the photographs must be taken precisely.&nbsp; Using a comparison microscope?</p><p><br /></p><p>Usually fake detection doesn&#039;t reach this point because the forgers take shortcuts and do things like incorrectly touching up dies created from off-center coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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