Posted By:
Anthony S.JB,
Do yourself a favor and buy a few very low grade real T206's as well as a couple reprints. When you see them side by side, you'll see how easy it is to tell the difference.
The font on the bottom front is usually the dead giveaway. As Scott mentioned, the font color for the player's name and team on real T206's is brown, whereas it's black on most reprints. In addition the letters in the name and team are always more tightly bunched on reprint sets. And finally, the first letter of the team name is slightly larger than the rest of the letters in the team name on real T206's. On fakes, all the letters are the exact same size.