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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 1404493, member: 22004&quot;]A fellow walked into a high-end coin shop recently with a $10 early gold coin, a 1799 $10.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Process was as follows:&nbsp; Clerk examines the coin, says it is the large stars obverse variety.&nbsp; It has &quot;problems&quot; which causes the clerk to say it was probably in jewelry.&nbsp;&nbsp; The customer says that it was in the family for years, passed down by the grandfather.&nbsp; Finally the clerk brings it back from an examination by the expert who says it was not genuine, and they would pay behind spot for it.&nbsp; I did not have a chance to look at the coin, most stores get upset if another customer says something about an ongoing transaction.</p><p><br /></p><p>Are counterfeits of gold coins like this fairly common?&nbsp; 50 or more years ago decent examples of early gold coins were not worth huge premiums, so the incentive to counterfeit was minimal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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