1913 Liberty Head Nickel

Oh the master hub, master die, working hubs, and working dies were all authorized. They were made back in late 1912 so they would have dies ready for use at the beginning of the year just in case the Buffalo had not been approved yet. (Making up a stockpile of dies for the coming year is standard procedure. It allows for changeover with no delays. Nowadays they even strike a stockpile of coins for the coming year so they will be ready for distribution.) By the time they received word not to do anything about five cent pieces until the buffalo design was ready, about Dec 12th, five pair of 1913 V nickel dies had already been shipped to San Francisco. These were ordered returned and arrived back around the end of the month. The 1913 dies were not destroyed until some time in February I believe. Roger Burdette has found reference to their destruction order.

But what if it lands on its edge?

What really puzzels me is why haven't the Chinese made millions of those and in PCGS slabs too? I'd buy about 10 if cheap enough.

Why the unhappy face? Am I a counterfeiter?

The problem is that most US coins and more so slabbed coins are exported directly to the US. In China, almost no one collects old US coins and even less collect slabbed coins. Thus, because of the low demand, they don't press out that many, and instead focus on Pandas, old Chinese coins, etc that can be sold quickly and to a large market domestically.

No one said they were. Try to remember that at one time almost the entire world thought everyone in Chicago walked around with a machine gun. All the people in Chicago had names that ended with an a or o and were Italians. Booze was being made in all garages. Ever see that series "The Untouchables"?
People just like to tell stories.
I'm sure there are a few Chinese that don't make our money. Maybe even more than a few.

Not sure about that either. Many of their counterfeits are really great. Takes talen for that.
Some time back a security company hired some criminals to show them how to break into houses and cars. They only hired the best. They learned a lot from those professional criminals.
Based on this I would think our government would find those counterfeiters in china, hire them to make our coins, Problems solved. Naturally PCGS could hire them to make slabs too.

hmm, id say contemporary fake
the only feasible thing I can see beyond the five currently known would be some kind of specimen strike, test strike, or pattern to test out the dies, but even if thos were made they were most likely destroyed shortly thereafter.

I took this coin to Sarasota at the NGC headquarter and have this coin examined by an expert named Rick. The expert analysis concluded that the 3 on the 1913 is pasted. The expert analysis also determined that the coin is a real nickel, with 191 on 1913 is real, but the 3 was pasted. With the expert analysis, this eliminate the possibilities that the coin is minted in China, or struck from other type of metal or other else. The question to answer now is focused on the 3 as the expert has observed if it is really pasted or not... does this make sense to every one following this topic?

To fully confirm if the 3 on the 1913 is pasted, I took this coin to the forensic metallurgical engineer and put the coin under extensive examination. The coin is throughly examined by 3 type of forensic microscopy including SEM. The result did not show a slightest sign of tampering or any type altering on the 3 of the 1913 or any part of the coin. The result did not show any sign that the 3 was pasted. The metal composition analysis did not show any trace of other type of mineral found, but 75% copper and 25% nickel. No other mineral shows to indicate that the 3 was pasted. The mineral observed on the coin are corrosion around the 3 consistent on 191 numbers. I do not arque about the established understanding of the community on the existence of only five of the LH13 coin, but there are answer that probably need to be questioned. I'm here at the Worlds Money Fair in LA and have this coin looked at by an expert Dave Lange from the NGC. Dave cannot make any suggestion more so determination to the authenticity of the coin without the proper equipment needed use to examine the coin. I have shown this coin to some vendors here at the show, and so far not one has observed that the 3 on the coin is pasted. Also, none has yet told me that there are alteration done to the coin. One thing each of the vendor will say though-that the coin is faked even "before" looking at the coin on their eye loop, and only to say that this is the perfect fake that they have seen. I guess there is really a perfect fake, but what does that really mean?