1913 V Nickel

It's not a "possible" fake, it's a "100% absolutely for sure" fake. If you want to waste your money to have someone tell you that, it's your money.

Most coin dealers know little more than what they can look up, and wouldn't know a fake if it bit them. That's why they pay millions of dollars to get coins slobbed.

Id say hes 99.9% wrong but I cant confirm it..LOL

also justme6333--these guys arnt being butts about this--they are pretty much experts--with the rarity of this coin, its just really hard to believe there is another out there, its nothing personal.

I am glad you came here and asked about the coin, I really wish others would do the same thing before they try and sell or buy coins like this. As was stated above there were only 5 coins that have been proven that was minted in 1913 and all 5 have been found. I am not sure if the last ones were found after that "announcement" you copied was written or not but if not then that announcement is not correct. I can understand someone finding a coin with a rare date and getting all excited about it because I know I sure get a little jumpy when I think I have found something special also. If you want to be sure I would probably just send it to ANACS and have them either authenticate the coin or give an opinion of authenticity, you can do this without having to pay to join any collectors club and without having to get someone else to send it in for you. If they say its real you can then send it to PCGS or NGC in the ANACS slab and maybe get it crossed over for more resale value (then the price of joining the club would be well worth it). if it is determined to be real, history will have to be re-written from 5 minted to 6 and I am sure allot of other people will start looking allot harder than before. As was said the chances are pretty slim that it is real and I am talking less than .1% but as long as there is a chance and there is a question in your mind, then I say go for it and see what the outcome is

The government is all wise and all knowing.

I was thinking the same thing. Just because they said 5 were made does not mean the janitor didn't fire up the presses after hours and make 50 more and bury them in the back yard and forget about them until the heat was off.

I agree, seems like a case of wishful thinking to me. Not meaning to be harsh of course, but we have to be realistic here.

It's not hard, it's impossible.

There were five made. We know where they are and what they look like.

It's not like the 1894s dime, where we know 24 were made and fewer than half are accounted for.

I have a 2001 where they corrected the error.

I see what you're saying and I could possibly buy that, but I would say that telling him to take it to a dealer would be enough of an alternative lesson learned. The OP said he did and the dealer told him "he wasn't sure if it was real"...not a likely story. Any dealer in a brick and mortar business would know at least as much to know for sure it was fake, or else they wouldn't be in business long.

This brings me back to what I said earlier-I'm not convinced this post was real. I still say it could have been a faker trying to test the waters and somebody who might have asked to sell it if I hadn't let the cat out of the bag. The OP never had a single thing to say in any other thread before, during, and after this 1913 business, yet "had been collecting coins since he was a kid." I doubt the posts here made by me, bigfred, and a few others hurt the feelings enough of a grown man to scare him away. I've seen posts made here by some amateur who thought they had something valuable and asked us about a 1920 Lincoln or something, but then disappeared because they didn't really care about coins. This thread didn't feel like that though. I guess I could still be proven wrong.