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New Member
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Thanks for the feedback everyone. I was leaning towards the fake category from the start and it appears others feel the same way. The reverse gives me too many doubts to confidently think its 100% authentic.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I think you've reached the correct conclusion - this has been a great discussion.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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So is it a faked off center strike using a real cent or a faked off center strike using a faked cent? I find the lack of an obverse rim, especially on the right side interesting as well as the run off the rim nature of IGWT on the top. Not sure how you could create either one of those if you were making a fake using a real cent, especially not without leaving tool marks. I agree that the spread on the lower left side of the obverse doesn't look like a typical off center strike, and the underweight nature of the coin is suspicious also. But Error-ref.com has a photo of a very similar obverse misaligned die LMC: http://www.error-ref.com/horizontal...-hammer-die/Similar lobe like area opposite the direction of the misalignment and lack of a rim on the misaligned side. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I feel it is legit, but it may have been struck on a blank, rather than a planchet that were are used to seeing. Note there is not proto rim on any area. Thus it appears thinner. (Maybe an under weight blank) Thus why the edges were different thicknesses.
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09/30/2020 2:45 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Looks like it could be a wrong planchet error. The weak strike looks very similar to some centavo planchet error coins I've seen posted here.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I dunno. Struck on an underweight blank seems a stretch. After studying it at length, it still doesn't feel right.
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New Member
United States
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Thanks for the additional comments and insight. I'll be setting this coin aside and potentially submitting it to PCGS in the future to see what they have to say. If only for a definitive answer of real or fake at this point lol.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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{ia] with coinfrog. It's just an attempt to make an error coin. And I agree, good discussion!
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Bedrock of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
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New Member
United States
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Hello!
I finally got around to submitting this coin to PCGS and it did in fact come back as genuine but with damage. The certification number is 47877563 with images. I just wanted to follow up with everybody who weighed in on the initial conversation. Thanks again to all!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Congrats on the attribution and thanks for the follow up! Have to say, I'm pretty embarrassed to see how dumb my original comment was on this post. The original thread was posted when I was a lot newer to error and variety hunting, but still not sure what I was smoking with the centavo planchet thing &  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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My original toughts on this coin three years ago were equally dumb. Congrats!
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Moderator
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Well Nice job on the certification. sure is a strange looking one.
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