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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 24723425, member: 24314&quot;]It is an &quot;across-the-room&quot; counterfeit.&nbsp; I&#039;ll Post some better ones but I cannot image the entire coin.&nbsp; Anyway, unless you are a collector who collects a certain country, a decent fake will go undetected in a complete image and even an advanced collector will miss many.&nbsp; That is how good the fakes are these days!&nbsp; That is why when a member posts a heavily counterfeited coin such as a Pillar dollar or Trade dollar...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp;&nbsp; Some of the time the coins look OK.</p><p><br /></p><p>At work, I try to scan the entire coin at 20X and higher just to be sure.&nbsp; That goes for OBVIOUSLY GENUINE coins too because I learn what the surface of genuine coins look like at 80X.&nbsp; If authenticators had been using electron microscopes to study the surface of genuine coins in the 1970&#039;s, THERE WOULD BE NO DECEPTIVE COUNTERFEITS graded by TPGS&#039;s today!&nbsp; AND, we could determine contemporary C/F&#039;s from modern fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>You cannot sucessfully authenticat a coin unless you know what the genuine should look like and <span style="color: #b30000"><i>don&#039;t trust anyone more knowledgeable about the coins 100%. </i></span><span style="color: #000000">Consultants have cost some TPGS </span><span style="color: #00b359">$$$$$$.</span><span style="color: #000000"> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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