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Message:: [QUOTE="eddiespin, post: 219656, member: 4920"]I beg your pardon, but I don't think that's very realistic. These coins are genuine or fake, not based on what a discriminating eye can see through a magnifying glass, but on what a properly-calibrated scale and calipers can determine within tolerances that are virtually unprecedented. We had those tolerances listed someplace, I forget the thread. But, let's face it, people aren't buying these so-called "error" coins for the sheer appreciation of it, and, that means, who cares whether they're fake, so long as a reputable TPG says they're not. And, let's get back to what I just said, on the "weak" edge-lettering. If I were a counterfeiter, and I knew I was dealing with these tolerances, I think I'd be bright enough to know to stay away from the deeper-engraved edge-lettering. And, when the Mint is all over the place on the mintage figures on these, and when these are selling for anywhere from fifty times your money back, and up, they're going to making these in high school machine shop, before long, if they aren't already, and, neither you, nor a TPG, is going to be able to discern the difference, because they're all going to be within the accepted tolerances. Just a prediction... PS: You must have already purchased some of these "raw," huh? If so, I'd send them in for slabbing, now, before the TPGs figure out the truth, that they don't know what in the heck they're doing with them...[/QUOTE]