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Posted By: Hankron

So as not to come across as gloom and doom, the vast majorities of counterfeits are easily identifiable to someone familiar with the issues, especially if the collector has some sample cards for comparison. There are often these theories of some super breed of counterfiets that even experts can't identify-- which is crap.

Even a 7 your old who inhereted and enjoys looking at his grandpa's 1962 Topps collection, will identify virtually all counterfiets because they simply don't look like grandpa's cards.

The common problem that collectors (and dealers and auction houses) have is not when they buy a card from an issue they have not seen in person before.