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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 362018, member: 112"]That is correct. But then that's one of the reasons that TPG's exist - because they can tell. That is also why there are classes and books - so you can try to learn how to do it yourself. But as a general rule, very few collectors can do this. Which brings back to the TPG's.   Yes there could be several different counterfeits. But as a general rule there is usually one type that is any good. That's because not all counterfeiters goes to all the trouble of making quality dies and mass produce the coins thus producing a large number of the exact same type of counterfeit. Most other counterfeits are nothing but crude copies made with methods that do not require lots of experience to detect them. And these fakes are not made in large numbers. There may be anywhere from only 1 example to a handful. So you seldom run across them. It is the others that were mass produced that you have to worry about. And it is these coins that are talked about in the books and classes.   That depends entirely on the quality of the pics. If the pics are good enough, yes you can spot them. If the pics are not - then no you can't. But before you can spot them you have the knowledge to be able to do so. Few do.[/QUOTE]