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Message:: [QUOTE="Insider, post: 4294577, member: 24314"]An "Omega" mark WAS NOT ADDED to genuine coins.  That's plain silly.In hindsight, those counterfeits are not even close to looking like a genuine piece.  Note that there was something about them that prevented me from sending them out as genuine.  That "something" was probably a gut reaction to the coins so that I knew there was something wrong but I didn't know what it was or even if the coins were not genuine.  Each time I had decided they were probably genuine the pen would not move on my diagnostic sheet and I put them aside to study further. "physics-fan3.14, posted: "Because the Omega is raised. (Actually, it is NOT RAISED on the counterfeits) It would be very difficult to just add an Omega. Plus, the whole reason there is an Omega on the coin is because of this guy's ego: the symbol is there as a mark of his work, which he took great pride in. It fed his ego that his fakes were nearly undetectable." Mainebill, posted: "In a way it’s good he signed them. They’re about the best fakes I ever seen let’s hope the Chinese don’t get this good."  I hate to say this but within two years, the counterfeits were 100% better than anything Mr. Omega dad done previously.  BTW, that was FORTY years ago.  The best fakes today have fooled the TPGS.  NONE of the fakes in the 70's ever did! PS PCGS and NGC did not even exist back then![/QUOTE]