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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 1249762, member: 24633&quot;]Making counterfeit coins using a cast is one of the cruder methods. First, a mold would have to be made from a legitimate coin. The mold would recreate (as raised marks) all of the nicks, dings, gouges and scrapes that were on the legitimate coin. When the cast copy is formed, these marks would then be recessed just as they were on the legitimate coin, and since there would be no patination on the surface, many of them would look odd or stand out like a sore thumb. The seam from the mold can also be another giveaway. Most often, it will be where the two halves of the mold join along the edge (the third side of a coin). Any excess metal that exudes from the seam would have to be polished or ground away which creates abnormal striations that you wouldn&#039;t expect to see from the metal flow on a legitimate coin. If the coin has a reeded edge, it is even more difficult to remove the excess metal that exudes from the seam. The metal flow, itself, which should be visible under magnification on both sides of, say, an AU or MS coin would be nonexistent on a cast counterfeit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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