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Of the fake 1914-D coins that have been altered, this is probably the more common method. Here a 1944-D has had the left side of the first 4 removed to make it look like a 1. Easy to spot as this screws up the spacing between the 9 and the "new" 1, and it is now much too wide. On this example the did a very nice job of removing that section of the 4, and the color match is very good with few remaining scratch marks, but they did fail to remove it completely and there are two numbs of the crossbars visible. And the kicker on these, is that in 1914 the coin had no designer initials, so below the bust it should be blank. While in 1944 the initials VDB can be found there. So on this coin they went and scratched off the initials. Odd that they just left all those scratches there after taking such care to remove them around date. 1914-D Lincoln Wheat cent fake - altered date 1944-D     |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pretty interesting fake tropicalbats.
Errers and Varietys.
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We've seen this one quite a bit. Might fool a novice but it's quite obvious with the markers @Bats tells about.
Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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Good education on this coin. For me, this coin is special, I found one when I was about 11 years old in New Mexico out in the desert and came across a two stone high rock house foundation, dug around it and from then on I collected coins.
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Textbook example!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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 The spacing on "44" of date is a dead giveaway!! |
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It always surprises me how many people have done this over the years. Are some of them just having a joke or are there really that many cretons out there trying to cheat people.
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Nice 1944 D cent.. thanks for posting these fakes!!
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Trop, it is anknow proveniance for me. The AMERICA show at the glance it is reproduction (bottom line between the letters) Never an contrafeith do strait line.
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..there are really that many cretons out there trying to cheat people.  itsa shame really. |
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Yeah, I found one when I was about 14 years old. Took it to my barber who was a collector and set me straight. Really bummed me out as my household was not very well off.
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After putting all my 1 cent fakes and counterfeits into their own folder, here are the results for 1914-D:
14 altered date 1944-D
1 carved D
1 added mint mark
1 struck
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It is fairly impressive tooling. You can see a faint top edge of the removal under scope but there is hardly a blemish to the base.
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In my image archives I have approx. 250 images of altered 1944-D cents. Here is a sample:  Show your financial support of the Coin Community Family (click here)See my topic on Mexican Numismatic Medals (click here) |
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Posted 11/01/2023 05:55 am
