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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2416932, member: 24314&quot;]Thanks for the link and the suggestion to look up the &quot;Omega&quot; C/F&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, the Internet stories are incomplete and far from the actual story!&nbsp; One site mentions a &quot;story&quot; about one of the coins being slabbed as a genuine.&nbsp; That may be true; however, both the $3 and $20 were detected and named at ANACS in DC a decade before slabs were around!&nbsp; Additionally, there are no &quot;bubbles&quot; on these coins as one site claimed.&nbsp; Both coins are struck counterfeits.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I remember, the High Relief fake first turned up around the time of the ANA convention in DC.&nbsp; The $3 was found later at ANACS.&nbsp; I have several articles and columns in my C/F files explaining the entire history of these coins and how they got their name.&nbsp; Michael Fazzari discovered them and the Director of ANACS (Charles Hoskins) named them.&nbsp; I will look for the articles and post more this week.&nbsp; Presently I own two of the twenty&#039;s and one $3.&nbsp; I sold another $20 for $300 over the price of a genuine $20 Saint decades ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW...These coins were the best fakes around in the 70&#039;s; however, they are no longer considered very good counterfeits as their luster and color is &quot;off.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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