1926 S Lincoln Wheat Cent Fake - 1920 S Altered Date

Definitely has taken a hit, in some point of its life.

I have hundreds of counterfeits in my collection. Some are really quite good, such as glued on CC mint marks on Morgans and S mint marks on 1909 VDB coins. Others like the Henning nickels are from known counterfeiters, while too many are just Chinese fakes that are floating around out there. Always happy to pull another out of circulation, even a minor thing like this one.

@tropicalbats,

Good for you, it's not needed in circulation any longer.
I have at least five $1 Draped Bust that are completely fake, though good decent looking examples, so they continue to reside in my fake coin collection,(what happens when we're gone).
Sounds like a few other members have fake coin collections as well .
Bj

Certainly unlike anything I've seen before. Guessinig it was accidental.

Thanks for all the great comments! And true, generally a counterfeit is a non-mint product designed to look exactly like a mint product. That is kind of why I called this one a fake and not so much a counterfeit. But the whole of my collection of these things I broadly call counterfeits, as they are meant to look like something they are not. I have always suspected that error and variety collectors would be where a lot of these end up in collections, as why would a person who collects normal coins want them. As for what happens to them when we are gone? I put a label on each of the folders noting that the coins are to be destroyed and not sold. Maybe someday I sell the collection to someone I trust, but otherwise they go under the sledge hammer down the road. I do not want them escaping.