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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 3316821, member: 26302"]Anyone who can pick up a loop and know how to authenticate a maple leaf due to radial lines and a privy mark can pick up a loupe and learn to authenticate any other coin sir. Either buying or selling maple leaves, early US gold, buffalos, etc one must learn how authenticate coins should look. Maple leaves are not immune to this. What good does a privy mark do if you don't know what an authenticate one should look like? A fake one would look the same to someone who doesn't know any better.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are nothing magical about maple leaves that only they can be authenticated. If you are in the US, a maple leaf will always sell at a discount to a US mint product.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you like them fine, but please do not think a maple is the only way to protect yourself, or the market will pay premiums for a radial line or privy mark.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 3316821, member: 26302"]Anyone who can pick up a loop and know how to authenticate a maple leaf due to radial lines and a privy mark can pick up a loupe and learn to authenticate any other coin sir. Either buying or selling maple leaves, early US gold, buffalos, etc one must learn how authenticate coins should look. Maple leaves are not immune to this. What good does a privy mark do if you don't know what an authenticate one should look like? A fake one would look the same to someone who doesn't know any better. There are nothing magical about maple leaves that only they can be authenticated. If you are in the US, a maple leaf will always sell at a discount to a US mint product. If you like them fine, but please do not think a maple is the only way to protect yourself, or the market will pay premiums for a radial line or privy mark.[/QUOTE]
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