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Show your financial support of the Coin Community Family (click here)See my topic on Mexican Numismatic Medals (click here) |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Yikes!  Quote:
it is suggested you have it authenticated by a reputable grading service The 1922 "plain" hole is one of three left to fill in my core Dansco albums along with 1916-D and 1909-S VDB. I am only looking at certified examples of those coins. Now that I have cracked a few slabs to fill other holes, I have no desire to buy these three raw. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Same scratch between the R and U in TRUST too.
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Bedrock of the Community
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And now a different color!
Lincoln Cent Lover!VERDI-CARE™ INVENTOR https://verdi.care/
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Pillar of the Community
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Are you suggesting that the first coin was altered to remove the MM or perhaps a transfer die was used to eliminate the MM? The second coin does look softly struck compared to the first coin and the MM area if tooled, isn't noticeable to my eyes. I would assume that the second coin was produced from a transfer die using the first one as the host coin. Indeed a good observation by nss-52.
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The mint mark was removed, and the coin re-toned. I do not know how it was done. If they wanted to use a die transfer method, why not just get a genuine 1922 no-D and use that as the host? Another example:  Show your financial support of the Coin Community Family (click here)See my topic on Mexican Numismatic Medals (click here) |
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Forum Dad
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8 or 10 hours in a rock tumbler with some sand might do this.
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Pillar of the Community
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Interesting. In your first example, the grunge inside IGWT and the date is gone—it hardly looks like the same coin despite the identical markings. Does the reverse also have identical bag marks?
And were the two 1922 no D examples sold by the same seller?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Thank you, nss-52, for this informative post and thread. 1922 no D is the only empty spot in my Lincoln album for these very reasons.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
Edited by HondoB
02/03/2023 1:13 pm
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Good info posted here, thanks Nss!
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Personally, I would only acquire one of these in a TPG slab - even if I intended to crack it out for an album. |
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They are getting really good at this.
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Bedrock of the Community
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You wouldn't be fooled if you knew the well-established varieties, but this is convincing indeed.
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You wouldn't be fooled if you knew the well-established varieties The forger would be out of business if the buyers did their research before buying. Show your financial support of the Coin Community Family (click here)See my topic on Mexican Numismatic Medals (click here) |
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 Thank you nss-52. They are good and quick. |
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