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Message:: [QUOTE="Insider, post: 8064772, member: 24314"]I congratulate the PCGS experts who provided this information to the public.  In actuality, ANACS, NGC, and PCGS all failed to detect these coins.  PCI even certified a BU 1896-O "Micro O" over my strong <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie92" alt=":stop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie79" alt=":rage:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> objection it was C/F in the mid-1990s based on the opinion of a Morgan dollar "expert" <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> consultant.  That specific coin was as easy to ID as a fake because it was as poorly struck & granular under the scope as the 1896-P fakes detected and published by the ANA's authenticators years before. Furthermore, after I joined NGC, we stopped certifying the "Micro O" fakes of these dates in 2001! The real "story" here is the research done since 2005 by many numismatists on ALL THE OTHER "privately made" (nice term for COUNTERFEIT so dealers and TPGS could buy, sell, and slab them) Morgan dollars that are now known. (30 and IMHO more to be discovered).[/QUOTE]