All this just reminds me of the story of one of the five 1913 Liberty Nickels.
Back in 1962, the owner of the coin, George Walton, was killed in a car crash. The coin was later consigned to Stacks Auctions, one of the leading numismatic auction houses of the day (and still today). Stacks misidentified the coin as a counterfeit, and returned it to the Walton family.
Then in 2003, the family rediscovered the coin, and took it to the American Numismatics Association convention that year in Baltimore. It was examined by a panel of experts, and found to actually be authentic.
It subsequently sold for $4.2M last year.
So, the point is, even "experts" do make mistakes; and authentic items are wrongly deemed fake, or otherwise not authentic.
Steve
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1909 Obak Howard (Los Angeles) (no frame on back)
1910 E90-2 Gibson, Hyatt, Maddox
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