Over the 30 plus years of working professionally with rare coins, I can seldom remember a more unusual group of counterfeit coins.

In the mid 1980s I remember being at a Long Beach Coin Expo while working for Harlan White from San Diego. Up to our table came another dealer who was very excited about a gem roll of 1934 quarters that he had just bought from a customer who had just mysteriously walked in off the street. This date is not a rare date by any means, but having a roll of 40 gems coins was unheard of, even in the 1980s before coin grading and encapsulation came to be what they are today.

The article is written by Mike Sargent is the Head Verifier at PCGS and is a leading expert on counterfeit detection. Read Entire Article