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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 3008909, member: 24314&quot;]Jack D. Young, posted:&nbsp; &quot;They would certainly like to get them back...</p><p>I continue to share them in seminars and coin show exhibits as examples of how deceptive they really are.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a touchy problem. I&#039;ve been authenticating coins professionally since 1972 and will agree that the fakes are getting extremely dangerous.&nbsp; One thing we have always had on our side is the public.&nbsp; You see, when a TPGS sends a coin out, millions of folks judge both the opinion of authenticity and the coin&#039;s grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>AFAIK, <b>when the counterfeiters targeted the Large Cent series, members of the EAC <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> were the folks who detected the fakes that were slabbed as genuine. </b> I will say that most of these fakes have been corroded and circulated which makes authentication more difficult.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now what I find very self serving, <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie66" alt=":muted:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie66" alt=":muted:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, and NOT GOOD for our hobby is when a knowledgeable numismatist takes a TPGS error <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie25" alt=":blackeye:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and puts it on display - anywhere.&nbsp; This <b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">nonsense</span></b> about helping folks and sharing information while keeping the coin in a TPGS slab is, well... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie66" alt=":muted:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I see it as a <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie66" alt=":muted:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; I sincerely hope this &quot;grandstanding circus act&quot; comes to an end.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jack D. Young, posted:&nbsp; 8 different large cent varieties including 1799, 3 half cents and a 1787 Mass half cent documented for early copper to date.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll add the Hawaii Cent to this batch of fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have any of these coins that were purchased in the last two years, send it in to be checked.&nbsp; Then millions of folks can verify the opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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