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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 690510, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Wheat and Chaff</b></p><p><br /></p><p>...&nbsp; well, I thought so, too, at first...&nbsp; but GoldCoinLover&#039;s intentions being admirable, the delivery was problematic.</p><p><br /></p><p>For one thing, the example of the 1958/59 Wheat Mule <b>contradicts the thesis</b> that common objects are more likely forged.&nbsp; Here was not a 55-DDO or even a Modern Commemorative, but a unique coin.&nbsp; The thesis is that forgers make the coins that most collectors buy.&nbsp; This was not such an example.</p><p><br /></p><p>Moreover, because it was unique it won hard inspection and yet apparently fooled the experts.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Randy Campbell&#039;s query based on the die polish marks is easy to answer: Seeing that the wrong reverse was chucked in, the press was stopped.&nbsp; Perhaps all of that run were immediately destroyed, but a worker slipped out one. Moreover, Randy Campbell&#039;s gut feeling might be reliable, but it is not replicable.&nbsp; Apparently, the Secret Service and other experts at PCGS had other &quot;gut feelings.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, it was perhaps futile to rely on the Secret Service statement that they could <b>not</b> prove that the coin was <b>not</b> made at a US Mint.&nbsp; Falsifiability is a hallmark of positivism -- in other words a scientific proof requires a standard and proof requires evidence.&nbsp; <b>Lack of a disproof is not a proof.</b>&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A more cogent question is where has the coin been for 40 years?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently, everyone but me knows that the Charles M. Larson book referenced at the opening is <i>Numismatic Forgery</i> (Irvine, California: Zyrus Press, 2003). </p><p><br /></p><p>Mike M.</p><p>Michael E. Marotta</p><p>------------------</p><p>&quot;Critical thinking: employ it.&quot;</p><p>----------------------------[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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