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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ShannaS, post: 2643685, member: 85144&quot;]I&#039;m still rather new to the forum to understand all the nuances but detecting coin forgeries is very difficult even for the most advanced of collectors and dealers.&nbsp; Even after 11 years and a reasonably good eye I still rely on the help of my fellow dealers.&nbsp; Some forgeries are very easy to detect (I&#039;m talking exclusively of ancients) due to obvious style differences or weights being completely off.&nbsp; However, the more advanced forgers are sometimes far more sophisticated and it takes looking at the coin <i>in hand</i> and a photograph simply will not do.&nbsp; That said, I saw a wonderful series that Coinsweekly put out about detecting forgeries. It is a good starting point. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.coinsweekly.com/en/Archive/8?&amp;tid=547" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinsweekly.com/en/Archive/8?&amp;tid=547" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinsweekly.com/en/Archive/8?&amp;tid=547</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I myself don&#039;t mind to give advice when I can but I would be very cautious about condemning a coin unless it was overtly obvious to be a forgery.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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