Counterfeit NGC 69 Canada 1-Oz Gold Maple Leaf Seller Sticks-And-Stones-2014

well, I am a newby and expected to say foolish things, so I will reply...

those coins are about as different as night and day.

so much about the outdated advice "always buy a slabbed and graded coin, because you know it is real".

don't the grading companies have expensive machines and such? betcha they did not even hold a magnet to the fake one... not that it means much.

I was told "well, always make sure you get a c.o.a. with the slabbed coin, that increases your chances of it being real.

except now I understand that even the c.o.a.'s are even being faked.

is there no one we can trust? I guess the best way is to go over a coin before it is submitted to TPG is to involve NSA, homeland security, the fbi and the Cambridge police (who did NOT act stupidly), along with sending the coin off to every lab in the country.

ok, dummy reply or not, thanks for the submission. the clues are so obvious that even a simpleton like me can make out the differences... the print, the length of the pointed ends of the leaf, everything you circled makes it pretty obvious.

the only thing is that I just bought a Canadian maple leaf coin... crumm.... I better go over it again...

mike