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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldCoinLover, post: 700714, member: 4336&quot;]Blem is just a raised piece of metal, often found on casted pieces, but I&#039;ve seen it on struck pieces too. I&#039;m not sure exactly what causes it in struck coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Depression is just a mark on a counterfeit coin that often is filled with luster, blends in with the rest of the fields, and often has soft rounded edges. Alot of them look circular for some reason. When the counterfeiters made the counterfeit dies, they used a genuine &#039;host&#039; coin to transfer the details on the struck pieces. These were contact marks on the genuine coin, transferred onto the die as raised lumps then struck they are shallow pits on the final coin. This is where the term &#039;repeating&#039; depression comes from, all those coins struck with those same dies will have the same depression in the same place. So if you see 2 coins with the same depression in the same location, you can be sure they are fake. Sometimes this is the only way the best counterfeits get found out.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m also having doubts if that one actually is a depression, it looks like one and seems to have luster in it but its edges kind of sharp..it may just be a contact marks. I often get them confused...if you look for metal flow in the depression, that&#039;s a key sign it is fake, because metal flows through them when they are struck, unlike a contact mark on a genuine which is post-mint damage. Since the coins were struck, often times the depression is filled with luster. I&#039;ve highlighted the areas of suspect on these photo&#039;s. Hope this helps.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a134/spacetimecont/Fake3ObvPaint.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a134/spacetimecont/Fake3RevPaint.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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