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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 8444345, member: 24314&quot;]This will continue to happen as the counterfeits have improved so much over the years.&nbsp; Graders are under pressure to cut down the several month turnaround times. They do not have the luxury to compare coins with images.&nbsp; Right now I&#039;ll put Jack, and several EAC members/dealers at the top of the copper authenticators.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, major TPGS are playing catch up because they examine coins with their naked eye or hand lenses.&nbsp;&nbsp; The days of the hand lens for authentication ended long ago.&nbsp; <span style="color: #b30000">I got caught up in complacency <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> fifteen years ago while working at NCS.</span>&nbsp; Jimmy, brought in a copper pattern from the NGC grading room that he was suspicious of.&nbsp; I looked at it for a few seconds, told him it was genuine and resumed conserving a coin.&nbsp; Within a minute, Ronnie came into NCS and told me he thought the coin was a counterfeit.&nbsp; I got up from the sink, went into my room with the stereo scope and in a few seconds I saw that the piece was a counterfeit - and not a very good one.&nbsp; You cannot have any idea what I felt like missing that fake because I did not use the scope with florescent light as I ALWAYS DO in the office when authenticating a coin.&nbsp; I&#039;m 100% sure my reputation as a top authenticator went down-the-drain with the graders across the hall that I formerly worked with before helping to start NCS.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know for a fact that coins are being imaged at the major TPGS so photo files will help detect fakes.&nbsp; <b><span style="color: #b30000">One other thing that should be done</span></b> (it won&#039;t be) is that a report with diagnostic images should be prepared and sent to each of the four major TPGS when any extremely deceptive counterfeit turns up.&nbsp; In other words, <b><span style="color: #b30000">there should be more cooperation between services.&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000"><br /></span></b></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Additionally, there should always be more than one grader + a finalizer on a box of coins.&nbsp; I can think of dozens of times over the years where a counterfeit was initially missed by an experienced professional authenticator.&nbsp; See above when that exact thing happened once to me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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