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Omega Man Coin Counterfeit

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I love this story and I have followed/watched/read everything produced about the "Omega Man". It is thought that the coins were probably minted no later than the mid 60's and probably closer to late 60's or early 70's since it was early 70's when the ANACS finally realized there was something going on when they had a large number of High Relief St Gaudens coins crossing their desk and on the market. His counterfeits can sell for quite a bit considering they are counterfeit if you can find them for sale anywhere (I haven't heard of one being for sale "knowingly" in the past 5 years), most people that do have them keep them for their mystique I believe. I actually went looking for one a couple years ago but always came up empty when I was searching. I had a few dealer friends looking also for me and they also came up empty handed. I am not sure how many he minted (Believed to be in the 20,000 range) but they are very well done and it would take someone knowing what they were looking at or an expert of the series to suspect something wrong with the coins. There are certain marks in the rays that all the coins exhibit that if you know what to look for would be a dead giveaway. I have never seen any of the $3 gold coins with an omega symbol in the loop of the R in LIBERTY that they say he made also but would love to at least see pictures of one of them, I have never even seen pictures of the 1913-P or 1926-P $10.00 Gold coins he made either
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