1. A system that facilitates authenticating objects, comprising: an imager that images an object, which includes a marker that is visually obscured and no encoded information, generating an image of the object; a marker identifier that identifies the visually obscured marker in the image of the object; an image processor that combines the image of the object and a visual representation for the identified visually obscured marker into a combined image and visually presents the combined image, wherein the object is authenticated as not counterfeit in response to the visual representation of the visually obscured marker corresponding to a reference authentication marker for the object.