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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1324879, member: 26302&quot;]Like Doug mentioned, you cannot disprove a negative, so you can never &quot;prove&quot; a coin is authentic. All you can do is get to the point where the market accepts it as authentic. Its a rough rule of life, but true. Philosophy, while truthful, sucks sometimes. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>With the flexibility in counterfeits adjusting metal in their products, its harder than it used to be to weed them out. This is all of the more reason I implore everyone to never rely on ANYTHING to prove a coin is authentic. If you have little tests to prove its NOT authentic, by all means do them. Old timers did this all of the time, and would check weights, sizes, reed counts, etc. The best test, is to know your coins! Become an expert on what a real Morgan is like. Buy one from a trusted dealer, and really study it. I am sure I look like a total geek to my wife looking at ancient coins under a microscope, weighing them, looking at different areas over and over. Get to know a real coin, and in hand fakes will just seem &quot;off&quot; even if you aren&#039;t sure what. This is why I am always very hesitant to label a coin good or bad by photos alone. I don&#039;t trust it like so many appear to that a person can truly make that determination without the coin in hand. Your mind picks up so many hundreds of bits of information subconsciously when you handle a coin that this becomes what &quot;feel right&quot; on an authentic one, and &quot;feels wrong&quot; when handling a fake. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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