Quote:I always knew, but these posts hammer home the importance and peace of mind one gets from buying coins graded and AUTHENTICATED by well respected
TPG's!
Yet some are so good and being done using real coins as models or transfer coins to make fake dies, as well as using older coins to maintain exact compositions in the metal of the planchets. Even that's no guarantee any longer. Though going with a top tier
TPG is certainly advised as they will back up the grades with buybacks.
I have a bunch of PDF files from Jack Young (also a member here at CCF) that he put together. Amazing stuff in some of the early EAC coins. I don't know how to post PDF's or if they are even allowed here?
An example of an incredible counterfeit US 1805
Half Cent:
https://coinweek.com/counterfeits/s...ution-guide/These have only gotten better in the past couple of years since this one was unearthed in 2018. Using a Master real coin purchased at auction for use in creating the dies then sold back into the marketplace, means they don't even lose much if any cash outlay. I'm not talking about fake
TPG holders but coins so well counterfeited they are fooling the TPGs and experts until they are uncovered through previous condition census photographs, at least on coins that are top of their grades, some are being artificially worn even more to avoid that now. Its down right scary.
Link to all of Jack's Coin Week articles:
https://coinweek.com/category/exper.../jack-young/"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013!
ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector.
See my want page:
http://goccf.com/t/140440Edited by westcoin
02/07/2021 01:33 am
Posted 02/05/2021 7:08 pm
