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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jpikston, post: 500588, member: 16794&quot;]I like to collect the GSA dollars-I&#039;ll tell you one reason why.</p><p>It would be more dificult to counterfit the packaging than counterfiting the coin to most machinists. EDM machine for the die and a press.....cheap. Here in mid- Michigan I have seen EDM&#039;s and presses more than capable of making a coin indistinguishable from an original article scrapped (thrown out) many times.</p><p>I don&#039;t care about magnification, experience bla, bla, bla. I read a comment once that said something like &quot;if that 1878 whatever coin doesn&#039;t have that die crack then it certainly is a fake since all the coins minted in that year used the same die.&quot;</p><p>I laughed my <span style="color: Red">edited</span> off. The change in the coin from the polish marks on the die and the small die crack are huge by todays manufacturing standards. Adding those features to a die would be easy for any one of about about 2000 out of work or starving machinists here in greater Detroit.</p><p>These counterfits that you see evaluated on this board or detected by NGC or PCGS are horrible terrible fakes. Anything (counterfit) better than a 5 out of 10 will never be detected.</p><p>I don&#039;t care if you have an electron microscope, a mass spectrometer, and 40 years experience its not enough because creating an exact duplicate is just to easy with 4K worth or gear and a blank. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I guess I should elaborate on &quot;easy.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Have you ever taken a towel out of the dryer and folded it over twice so that it was a smaller square?</p><p>That&#039;s how easy.</p><p>People that collect coins should realize this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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