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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 7699447, member: 24314"]IMHO, <b><span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">counterfeit coins will become virtually undetectable</span></b>. The counterfeiters only need to change one thing which I shall never tell. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie66" alt=":muted:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The main reason this will happen (with that simple change) is that a majority of the older and experienced professional authenticators/dealers around the world do not study genuine coins under high magnification. These folks were around in the 1960's-1970's when counterfeits were of much lower quality making the study of genuine specimens easy.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMHO, the ONLY way to assure that the "super fakes" of the future will remain detectible is for young adult numismatists with access to an electron microscope and spectrograph to start examining the surfaces of 100% genuine coins. I don't expect this to be done. I made the same recommendation to three such students in the 1980's.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thankfully, <span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">it will not be my<b> problem <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></b></span> because I'll be dead. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie40" alt=":dead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>PS Much of the stuff written about such as the 3c above is considered to be a crude, naked-eye, easily detected fake by any competent numismatic authenticator. Therefore, it is not a "super fake." <b><i>The deceptive fakes get into TPGS slabs UNTIL they are detected.</i></b> Some of them, such as the older fakes in the Morgan dollar series have fooled everyone for decades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 7699447, member: 24314"]IMHO, [B][COLOR=rgb(179, 0, 0)]counterfeit coins will become virtually undetectable[/COLOR][/B]. The counterfeiters only need to change one thing which I shall never tell. :muted: The main reason this will happen (with that simple change) is that a majority of the older and experienced professional authenticators/dealers around the world do not study genuine coins under high magnification. These folks were around in the 1960's-1970's when counterfeits were of much lower quality making the study of genuine specimens easy. IMHO, the ONLY way to assure that the "super fakes" of the future will remain detectible is for young adult numismatists with access to an electron microscope and spectrograph to start examining the surfaces of 100% genuine coins. I don't expect this to be done. I made the same recommendation to three such students in the 1980's. Thankfully, [COLOR=rgb(179, 0, 0)]it will not be my[B] problem :D[/B][/COLOR] because I'll be dead. :dead: PS Much of the stuff written about such as the 3c above is considered to be a crude, naked-eye, easily detected fake by any competent numismatic authenticator. Therefore, it is not a "super fake." [B][I]The deceptive fakes get into TPGS slabs UNTIL they are detected.[/I][/B] Some of them, such as the older fakes in the Morgan dollar series have fooled everyone for decades.[/QUOTE]
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