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<p>[QUOTE="ToughCOINS, post: 1899006, member: 20480"]There's no short cut to authenticating coins, although you can buy some books to learn what some of the most common diagnostics are for identifying fakes. In some series, multiple dates were struck with the same die on the undated side, so studying those first will probably get you the most mileage for time invested. </p><p> </p><p>Focus first on the series you collect, and ignore the others until they later attract your interest. If you get really good at one series first, you can apply many lessons learned on that series to others later on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ToughCOINS, post: 1899006, member: 20480"]There's no short cut to authenticating coins, although you can buy some books to learn what some of the most common diagnostics are for identifying fakes. In some series, multiple dates were struck with the same die on the undated side, so studying those first will probably get you the most mileage for time invested. Focus first on the series you collect, and ignore the others until they later attract your interest. If you get really good at one series first, you can apply many lessons learned on that series to others later on.[/QUOTE]
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