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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2486655, member: 24314&quot;]It depends on who you are asking.&nbsp; I think the British Museum may have a pretty good accuracy record.&nbsp; Here is something I read many &quot;moons&quot; ago and I have found it to be true in very many cases:&nbsp; A new hire at ANACS in DC told his Summer Seminar class that soon after he was hired, he realized that over half of the well known, long time professional coin dealers that were being used as consultants &quot;could not authenticate themselves out of a paper bag.&quot;&nbsp; They stopped using many of them and as he told us, even the ones they kept using had their opinions verified by the staff using comparison coins in museums! </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I should guess that the upper strata of dealers do a pretty good job.&nbsp; Plus, when a coin goes into a major auction with everyone looking few fakes slip past - some do.&nbsp; Yet, with every Tom, Dick, and Harry trying to prove how much they know, it must be tough to pass a fake. </p><p><br /></p><p>One final thought.&nbsp; There are some coins that defy authentication and you will find top experts in disagreement. But most of the time you take a coin around to several dealers for an opinion, you are going to be very disappointed with the results UNLESS the coin is an crude fake or what professionals like to call a coin so obviously genuine that it is &quot;self authenticating.&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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