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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 166352, member: 66&quot;]Those were 1907 high reliefs (That was what Omega counterfeited in the double eagles).&nbsp; For the time when they were discovered they were state of the art, but the anti counterfeiting experts say that by todays standards, if they just came out they would be spotted quickly and easily.&nbsp; (Mr Omega also made counterfeit 1882 three dollars gold pieces.&nbsp; His Omega signature is inside the loop of the R in LIBERTY.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The Omegas were discovered back in the early days of ANACS when it was the onlyreal organized authentication services which the needed concentration of talent and data.&nbsp; Before that time each expert worked independantly and only had his own experience to fall back on and no large archives of die diagnostics for both real and fake coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>ANACS changed all that and made the detection of counterfeits easier and more certain.&nbsp; While lots of people like to thank PCGS and NGC for their efforts removing counterfeits from the market, the real heros in that fight was ANACS that had spent 14 years eliminating and identifying the different counterfeits by die diagnostics, and training the experts that then went on to continue the work at PCGS and NGC.&nbsp; (Most of the top graders/authenticators at the other tops services were originally from ANACS)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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