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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 2896130, member: 31533&quot;]And nothing beats knowing when you are seeing something fake but looks real to most people, and the only way you know is because you have handled enough real ones that when a faked one comes along that is &#039;indistinguishable&#039; from the real one, you spot it as fake based only on what might be things you normally don&#039;t measure or note as a difference, but which your brain recognizes as being off. ... For example, if you collect a certain type of china that can be somewhat valuable but is known to be widely forged as such, small minutia such as the strength or even minor color tone or impression evenness of the maker&#039;s mark could be the only distinguishing characteristic, and that is something that a brain notices and &#039;logs&#039; in it&#039;s database without you really being aware you are checking that. So the person who reads up on the kind and has not has enough experience handling a real one and whose ability to recognize subtle color or strength differences is not sufficient can easily be fooled. </p><p><br /></p><p>For coins this might be knowing where to expect part or all of some lettering to be strong or weak, having the ability to catalog in your brain small marks in certain areas of the coin, and perhaps even the width or spacing of some lettering, and such for a particular coin. Not all knowledge gained is quantifiable and provided to others in a written format or widely distributed. And many who do know some differences don&#039;t publish it, because that allows the fakes to possibly get better. And even if it was designed to be passed on, I don&#039;t think all experts could identify exactly what to look for until they have experienced a great fake that their brain said just wasn&#039;t right. Then comes the possibility of defining just what was off and why, and then being able to go and say what to look for.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those who do fakes, the closer you can make it look real to an experienced person, the better off you are to pass it. For experts it pays them to not necessarily give out all their knowledge, especially if it is something that a counterfeiter would then &#039;correct&#039; to not be an issue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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