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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 2437063, member: 24314"]This time I need to disagree with you. No matter if we are talking about ancients, tokens, medals, paper money, wampum or foreign coins of any type or era: One thing <span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">always</span> holds true: In order to authenticate something you MUST KNOW what the genuine specimen looks like! That is why we taught it that way - it's a universal and undeniable fact. Add to that, you must know what the genuine object looks like when it is circulated, cleaned, altered, toned, or corroded. Think that coved all the bases. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p> </p><p>The simple reason that many would be trapped by fake foreign coins and ancients is they <span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">don't know </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">what they should look like. Fortunately, TPGS's have solved much of this problem for collectors.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 2437063, member: 24314"]This time I need to disagree with you. No matter if we are talking about ancients, tokens, medals, paper money, wampum or foreign coins of any type or era: One thing [COLOR=rgb(179, 0, 0)]always[/COLOR] holds true: In order to authenticate something you MUST KNOW what the genuine specimen looks like! That is why we taught it that way - it's a universal and undeniable fact. Add to that, you must know what the genuine object looks like when it is circulated, cleaned, altered, toned, or corroded. Think that coved all the bases. ;) The simple reason that many would be trapped by fake foreign coins and ancients is they [COLOR=rgb(179, 0, 0)]don't know [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]what they should look like. Fortunately, TPGS's have solved much of this problem for collectors.[/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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