1847 Braided Large Cent Fake

I am not familiar at all with copper... I did not want to waste my time researching this if it is an obvious fake... But as it goes with my other coins.... it appears I will be drug into a new area there just seems to be little available quick access info on these as compared to say Morgan or Peace dollars.... The books on cent varieties are high dollar investments.... I'll see about getting some full Obv. and Rev. images up...

thanks

Both full obverse and reverse pictures are needed to check if it's legit or not.

From your close up photo, however, I see nothing wrong. But we still need those obv. and rev. pics.

Edit: After looking at full photos, I don't believe this is authentic...something is "off" about it.

I had really large file sizes I used the picture optimizer tool to down size them significantly... please let me know if there are other images needed to make a determination... Thanks all for your assistance..

I just remembered.. I have a jewelers scale... should I weigh it or do fakes generally meet the weight requirements?

after the assistance here and seeing the huge difference in the font of the date numerals I have to agree... Fake... I really thought is was... Just wanted to be sure it was not some super rare variety!

Thanks all.

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Doing so CAN sometimes be profitable. A modern fake is worthless, but a contemporary counterfeit can go for thousands. This one sold for over $7,000