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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;justafarmer, post: 2965622, member: 3926&quot;]I don&#039;t know if you could call it a strategy to avoid buying fake coins or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>My thoughts are when the obverse and reverse dies are installed into the coin press it sets the design orientation (obverse to reverse for the die pairing) through coinage production. A counterfeiter using a pair of counterfeit dies would also be required to install these dies to strike coins with the designs at the proper orientation. </p><p><br /></p><p>A coin with an added mint mark (even one with the mint mark electroplated precisely to its orientation relative to the obverse design) would still retain the obverse-reverse orientation characteristic of the actual die pair that stuck the coin. Which may or may not be at the same orientation as the coin being counterfeited.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know how static the obverse to reverse orientation remains for a die paring throughout coin production or through different die states.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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