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<p>[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 3131491, member: 92655"]I can sympathize to your fear of phony coins that have been so prevalent in our hobby. I'll just say this..... I been collecting close to fifty years. And I am probably the least numismatically educated here among the forum brethren. I have come to trust the following things when it comes to fakes.</p><ul> <li>If there is the slightest indifference or red flag sounding in your head. It is almost certainly a phony.</li> <li>I have yet to see a portrait perfectly recreated on a fake. Mind you, the criminals are getting better all the time. But personally I have not seen a portrait perfectly recreated.</li> <li>This is the most telling identifier to me... The toning on classic forgeries almost always appears perfectly "sprayed on" somehow.</li> <li>The "sprayed look" toning in combination with the imperfect portraits immediately bring a cartoonish appearance in my mind.</li> </ul><p>Now again, I am probably the least educated here on the forum and I am quite confident in my ability to spot a fake. Now these rules don't apply to all coins in my mind. Old coppers and gold are different. My collecting doesn't include old coppers and I buy my gold from reliable sources. But as far as the routine day in day out stuff. It doesn't take me but a second to sniff out a fake using the standards I mentioned above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 3131491, member: 92655"]I can sympathize to your fear of phony coins that have been so prevalent in our hobby. I'll just say this..... I been collecting close to fifty years. And I am probably the least numismatically educated here among the forum brethren. I have come to trust the following things when it comes to fakes. [LIST] [*]If there is the slightest indifference or red flag sounding in your head. It is almost certainly a phony. [*]I have yet to see a portrait perfectly recreated on a fake. Mind you, the criminals are getting better all the time. But personally I have not seen a portrait perfectly recreated. [*]This is the most telling identifier to me... The toning on classic forgeries almost always appears perfectly "sprayed on" somehow. [*]The "sprayed look" toning in combination with the imperfect portraits immediately bring a cartoonish appearance in my mind. [/LIST] Now again, I am probably the least educated here on the forum and I am quite confident in my ability to spot a fake. Now these rules don't apply to all coins in my mind. Old coppers and gold are different. My collecting doesn't include old coppers and I buy my gold from reliable sources. But as far as the routine day in day out stuff. It doesn't take me but a second to sniff out a fake using the standards I mentioned above.[/QUOTE]
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