Spot The Fake 1909-S IHC

Whatever was done, there is definately something visibly wrong with the area around the MM and is an indicator of a possible added or changed MM.

"This raises the question, is there anyone out there who makes fake coins for their own collection? That is, rather than faking a coin for profit, would anyone do it for their own collection"?
Many years ago, I understood that possession of a "fake', or otherwise counterfit coin was very risky, and illegal. maybe they have changed the law, to read possession, for presonal use, but not legal to be sold. anyone know what the current status is?
I have a couple fakes, one is a 1632 COB, and a flowinghair dollar. The latter was a recent gift from my D-I-L, who qworks for the school district, and caters in the loblic restaurant, which serves the city employees, police, etc,etc. She said it, and a 1986 "Ellis Island" dollar were found in the register. no one knows who paid for their meal with them! I have posted both of them, here on CCF They are both magnetic, obviously,. not silver, and also obviously, Chinese origin, but fake!
Dick

My eye went to #2 immediately! Nice tooling also :-)

I'll go same with bill069, it's pic # 1

I think the confusion here is due to Bill069 making his own photo.
Yep--#2 is the fake.

Thanks DVD Collector, you got me there, reason I had thought it was #1 was that I magnified that pic by 900% then 1,100%, to see the color pixelation, the borders and coloring of the "S" seemed entirely different from the surrounding area, 2,3 & 4 "S"s pixelation vs area are the same. Thus pic #1

Yes, copy #2 pic's the one, correction noted

Lets try another one DVD, this is interesting!

I'm not sure what the point would be. It isn't cheap to make just one fake, at least not a good one. It would probably cost less to just buy a genuine coin. You really need to make multiple fakes and sell them to offset the cost. Once you're doing that why would they stop once they broke even and still have a fake in their collection?