Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® (NGC®) has launched an online Counterfeit Detection resource, leveraging its decades of authentication expertise.

Hosted at NGCcoin.com/counterfeits, the resource features the 50 US coins and 25 Chinese coins most commonly targeted bycounterfeiters. Each of these coins has on its own page, with high-resolution images, the type of counterfeits of it typically seen, tips for detecting these counterfeits and other helpfulinformation.

This valuable resource was assembled under the direction of Rick Montgomery, NGC President, Finalizer and one of the world's foremost coin authenticators. Many members of the NGC grading team alsoprovided research and insights. NGC's graders have identified more than 100,000 counterfeit and altered coins since 1987.

The resource puts a spotlight on such coins as the 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent, the most commonly counterfeited US coin, according to submissions to NGC. The Year 23 (1934) Junk L&M-110 Dollar, namedfor the ship on its reverse, is the most commonly seen counterfeit of a Chinese coin, according to submissions to NGC.

Other highlights of the resource's lists of counterfeit coins:

The Counterfeit Detection portal also includes a section that explains what distinguishes the different types of fakes, which include cast, spark erosion, electrotype and transfer diecounterfeits, as well as altered dates and altered mintmarks.

To visit the NGC Counterfeit Detection site, see:
https://www.ngccoin.com/resources/counterfeit-detection/

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