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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2758365, member: 24314&quot;]Extruded edge reeding is very common on genuine coins.&nbsp; For example, try to find some McKinley gold dollars without it.&nbsp; That&#039;s not the best example as few of us will get to see many of these raw.&nbsp; Anyway, the smaller the gold coin, the more often this characteristic is seen.&nbsp; Therefore it is not a very useful or reliable characteristic to use for coin authentication.</p><p><br /></p><p>Long ago, on crude fakes, the coins were pushed through a &quot;tool&quot; with grooves to simulate edge reeding.&nbsp; By the 1970&#039;s <b>ALL</b> decent counterfeit U.S. coins were die struck in collars - even the crude struck fakes that many well regarded authorities at the time mistakenly claimed were casts![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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