Numismatic Forgery, 1st Edition ISBN:0974237124

Numismatic Forgery

Winner NLG Award

Numismatic Forgery takes the reader into the clandestine workshop of the criminal forger, and explains the methods and techniques that every serious coin collectors should know about before they purchase a rare or expensive coin.

The informal interviews Larson conducted with the infamous master forger, Mark Hofmann, at Utah State Prison in the late 1980's lay the foundation for a number of methods revealed in Numismatic Forgery. Hofmann is widely known for his forgery of historical Mormon documents, but Hofmann's coin forgeries continue to serve as a note of caution and as a source of frustration and embarrassment to many collectors and dealers.

Numismatic Forgery sheds new light on unique and rare coins, including the much-debated 1959 Reverse Wheat Back Lincoln Cent.

Charles Larson's book offers a detailed, applied and ultimately brilliant approach to how rare coins are privately manufactured. His painstaking, hands-on approach and clever writing style sets a new standard for numismatic research works, and promises to forever change how collectors and dealers of rare coins understand and approach counterfeit detection.

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