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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldCoinLover, post: 607837, member: 4336&quot;]Yep, I plan to go to it someday...I live in the far west (arizona) quite a ways, unfortunately.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s awesome you&#039;re going to do a seminiar,</p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to say I&#039;m pretty knowledgeable about counterfeits but I need to understand the minting process more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another poster here, said he recently got the Bill fivaz book, (I have it too), and searched on ebay for obvious fake gold coins. Well, funny thing is I did the same thing, thinking I could do it. The problem was when I ran across a jewerly damaged&nbsp; 1 dollar gold coin, which was probably geniune, but I wasn&#039;t familiar with the GENIUNE details of that coin. The main thing was with the letters on all geniune specimens look like they are &#039;stamped&#039; in. I saw this and assumed it was fake...the truth is it seems you really have to understand what a geniune coin looks like to spot the fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>It takes alot of experience at looking at coins often to spot good fakes, it just &quot;doesn&#039;t look right&quot;. I&#039;m not at that level yet but hope to be some day. It&#039;s funny you said in the thread too at first every coin looks counterfeit, that&#039;s true! Until you can become intimately familiar with a geniune specimen, this seems so true.</p><p><br /></p><p>I should also add Brian Silliman did the same thing, and he spotted one he said within 5 minutes, which was obvious fake ($3), because of the &quot;halo&quot; effect it had.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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