1799 Large Cent Genuine, Fake, Or Undeterminable?

What does your boss say?

It's a fake (altered date actually). On all three 1799 varieties the highest wave of the hair is slightly right of the center of the R, an this one it is under the left edge of the upright of the R. also on al the 99's LIBERTY is distant from the bust, on this one it is down close.

I can just hear him.

Agree, the color and sharpness of that 9 are noticeably different from the rest of the coin.

photoshopped second 9

Seriously. I have photoshop but almost never use it (gimp is better). But no, this is an unaltered photo. Do I have the ability to "photoshop" a 9 on it? Yes. But I can edit a person out of a picture so...

Then I might. I've also become a lot more accustomed to gimp, everything's' been tuned to my liking. PS has a much better internal processing system for image manipulation and is runs smoother, no argument. But gimp's version of content aware fill is much, much better.




Can't hurt to dream I guess. I think I paid like, sub $5 for this because I was 99% sure that it was a fake, especially given that the only digit visible was magically the last 9. Guess I'll give it away at somepoint, don't have anything better to do with it.