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