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1909 S VDB

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 Posted 01/08/2013  07:40 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add kijiji2012 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
is this real? had it for years and always woundered

1909-S-VDB

1909-S-VDB

1909-S-VDB


1909-S-VDB

1909-S-VDB
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01/08/2013 09:21 am
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 Posted 01/08/2013  07:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Foxwoods Man to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hard to tell from those pics ...but the S looks like a different strike quality than the date...
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 Posted 01/08/2013  08:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SHAFTA9a to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hi kijiji2012, I'm pretty sure it's a fake.

The VDB on the reverse doesn't look right to me also the 'S' mint mark.

Bigger pictures would help especially on the two things I mentioned.
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 Posted 01/08/2013  08:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add kijiji2012 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
i will try to get a better pic , but its all so small, and thats as much zoom as I have, my scale say 3.2 gram, so I am not sure as my scales dont read more 0.0, I may need to find a set of 0.00?
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 Posted 01/08/2013  09:53 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add cwb1877 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It's a fake. The poorly formed S is a dead giveaway. It looks nothing like what the S looks like on authentic examples. Here is a link regarding 1909-S VDB authentication:

http://www.pcgs.com/News/Counterfei...incoln-Cents
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 Posted 01/08/2013  09:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add kijiji2012 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
yes thank you..,yup my S looks way diffrent thank you,. how do you delete these posts?
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 Posted 01/08/2013  10:23 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add kijiji2012 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
are you aloud to sell this on ebay and list it as a "possable fake" with a starting bid of .01? or do they not like that?
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 Posted 01/08/2013  10:25 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jerseyben to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Let's just say it is "frowned upon".
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 Posted 01/08/2013  12:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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how do you delete these posts?
You do not. They remain so others can learn from them.
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 Posted 01/08/2013  2:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add HelzelsCoins to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sorry, its 100% fake... the "S" is way off, and the coin looks like it was made from sandblasted dies.
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The cent is real....the MM/vdb is the issue
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Amen to that jbuck! THANK YOU THANK YOU for this posting, a rather devious person in this town has been trying to get me to buy "his" 09-s VDB for months now. My gut has told me to avoid that coin like the plague, but always with a lot of doubt. Now after seeing the authentic/fake coins and what to exactly look for, it's a fake.

Everybody go get a glass of water, on me!

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 Posted 01/08/2013  3:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add kijiji2012 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
foxwoods men thank you, so it real?, the mm/vdb, what does that mean? and is there any book value?
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Thank you very much for that link, cwb8539! I now feel much better about the authenticity of my own 1909SVDB.

Oh -- and kijiji2012... I think foxwoods was just saying the penny itself is a real penny, but the mint mark and the "VDB" on the back are fake.
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 Posted 01/08/2013  3:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Foxwoods Man to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Oh -- and kijiji2012... I think foxwoods was just saying the penny itself is a real penny, but the mint mark and the "VDB" on the back are fake.


Correct...
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 Posted 01/08/2013  3:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add morgandude to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yes,

It looks like the S and the VDB is fake.
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