Omega counterfeit coins

Anyone of you read about Omega counterfeit coins before? Its not about Omega gold watch but an unknown counterfeiter who signed his creations with a minute Greek letter omega “Ω”. His counterfeit works are the highest quality forgeries ever produced. He is believed to have made over 20,000 fake 1907 high-relief nominally US$20 gold Double Eagle coins and his signature omega can be found in the claw of the counterfeit US$20 gold Double Eagle coins. With a genuine coins a hard thing to get, it will be little bit harder to detect omega works.

Omega images by John Roberts

His counterfeits are of such high quality that collectors will pay upwards of $1,000 for one; a genuine coin sells for about $50,000 to $100,000. Omega also counterfeited other US gold coins, including a large quantity of $3 gold pieces, dated 1874, 1878 and 1882, with the 1882 being the most prevalent. Two of his counterfeit $10 gold pieces, the 1913-P and 1926-P, have the omega placed upside down within the upper loop of the "R" of "LIBERTY" in the Indian's headdress.

For this US$20 gold Double Eagle coins, Several diagnostic characteristics may help identify that this is a forgeries coin. The maker of these pieces, signed his work with a tiny symbol “Ω” inside the eagle’s claw. Two patches of distinctive tooling marks are found on the obverse, in the hair to left of Liberty’s face and on the ray directly above the first M of the date.

Source: Wikipedia, anacs.com.