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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JCro57, post: 7872248, member: 92083&quot;]Honestly, I am not going to be telling you something you can easily look up for yourself. No offense but I don&#039;t reward laziness. Taking the initiative to look it up on your own makes you a better and more informed collector. It&#039;s how you grow and start to fine-tune your skills.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another way is to do what I did. Go on auction sites and look up their certified examples. What are some differences that you see between those you think are genuine and those which might be suspect?</p><p><br /></p><p>Also take some time to learn the minting process for different types of coins, and understand that how they&#039;ve been produced has changed over the years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, learn a little bit of metallurgy and the faults and benefits of using various coining metals. Look up and learn various ways metals, including those for coins, can become damaged over time. What types of natural damage can occur to Old copper coins? Zinc-plated cents? Zinc-plated steel cents for 1943 issues? What issues can cause laminations on alloy coins like silver and copper? What does environmental damage look like? Heat damage? Use of acids or other corrosives?</p><p><br /></p><p>Then you can begin researching how coins become altered intentionally and the most common ways people do it to make them appear as errors to fool collectors. Move on to actual counterfeiting as well and look for signs to check for.</p><p><br /></p><p>The purpose of my book is so that I don&#039;t have to keep answering the same questions over and over and over and over again (like the ones you ask). Or if not my book, there are a few other good ones along with some great websites out there. Oddly enough i already answered your question with specifics before you asked it on this forum. But I owe you no explanation despite the various psychological games and insinuations you use to try and extract it from me here. Don&#039;t think for one second you are dealing with a fool.</p><p><br /></p><p>You learn much more by doing things yourself than relying on somebody else to just give you an answer. And as you can see with all the mislabeled slabs out there, as well as experts at grading companies totally getting things wrong like the featured coin in this post, it empowers you to start making those calls for yourself.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Man, I wish I could like my own answer on this forum.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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