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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldCoinLover, post: 607793, member: 4336&quot;]I had the pleasure of taking the 1 day counterfeit coin and alteration detection class at the phoenix ANA show. Although it was only one 8 hour day, I learned alot and got to see alot of counterfeit gold coins. I hope to someday take the official course at the ANA. I have always strived to become an expert on counterfeit gold coins, (not alterations), the main thing is I Need to see more of them, both geniune (so I know what a geniune coin looks like, anything else will look suspicious), and counterfeit, so I&#039;m able to spot most counterfeits that just do not &#039;look&#039; right.</p><p><br /></p><p>Brian Silliman was the teacher, he taught secret service agents how to detect counterfeit coins as well as he was a past grader at NGC and conservative at NCS.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since then I&#039;ve been reading as much as I can on counterfeits, I have several books including &quot;numismatic forgery&quot; which goes through the process of actually making the counterfeits, to understand it better. I have a few counterfeit gold articles, (one by brian sillman on depressions) taped to my wall as well!</p><p><br /></p><p>The ANA Course helped alot, as well as the ANA magazine The Numismatist, as well as reading articles from Mike on Numismatic News, and the COINage magazine occasionlly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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