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Edited by Halus89
12/09/2015 10:33 am
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Bring it to a local coin expert....these are highly counterfeited because they are valuable. If your coin guy thinks so I would sent it into PCGS or NGC for further verification. If it's real you got a real valuable coin there.....but don't be surprised if it is fake, there are a lot of fakes out there. I hope it is real that'd be a heck of a score.
After looking at it again it could be a modified date like an altered 1948, with the 8 being modified.
Edited by Imthealphaomega
12/09/2015 06:38 am
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3 definitely looks altered to me.
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New Member
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On the back of the coin "UNUM" is doubled writed
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Pillar of the Community
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The 3 is flattened, unlike the 194 digits which are sharply defined. That does look suspicious; perhaps the 3 was formed by tooling the final digit of a different date like 1944 or 1948. If so you should be able to see scrape marks using a microscope.
The doubled UNUM is very unusual. I've never seen anything like this. Any chance you can take clear enlarged photos of both the date and UNUM?
You might also check the weight; a normal cent should weigh about 3.1 grams.
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Valued Member
United States
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Yup. Probably a 2 or a 4 made to look like a three.
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New Member
United Kingdom
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My scale show 3 gm.I will try to put more pictures
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New Member
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I posted another photos more clouser.
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New Member
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I will go tomorrow to one coin dealer. I hope is no fake  |
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Never hold a coin with your bare fingers on the faces of the coin. It can severely damage the surface of the coin.
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The 3 in the date just don't seem right. See how fat the upper part is compared to a real one (photo borrowed from another post).  |
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Something you have to remember, the presses were set for striking the much harder steel planchets, the copper 1943's are very sharp in their details. Those copper planchets were HAMMERED. They would not show the weak blurring of the 3 ( or the blurred letters in LIBERTY) that this coin does.
The doubled UNUM also condemns the coin. An unknown doubled die with that much separation? And the only "known" example is on a 43 COPPER cent?
Edited by Conder101
12/09/2015 12:37 pm
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Fake, they used a real cent and stamped over it....you can see it in the UNUM.
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Quote:
Never hold a coin with your bare fingers on the faces of the coin. It can severely damage the surface of the coin. Highly unlikely on a browned copper coin. Still, a good idea though. |
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