Struck Counterfeit Coin of the Week: 1927-S Standing Liberty Quarter---------“visor head” variety

1630Boston

From CoinWorld

As previously reported in our first CoinWeek article on the subject, “From the Brink to the Dark Side“, this variety is one of several that started with the purchase of a damaged genuine coin that was repaired. And, as in most cases to date, the resulting details just did not look “quite right” and did not exactly match the details of a known genuine example. This led to our nickname for these as the “visor head” variety!

The original internet images for the “discovery” example were low resolution and would have been difficult to highlight the attributable circulation and repair/tooling marks. But our contacts at NGC made the following higher resolution images available for this research.

Timeline for the 1927-S Liberty Standing Quarter:

August 12, 2012: Raw internet example – probable source coin
October 29, 2014: TPG-certified internet example
July 30, 2015: TPG-certified internet example
November 10, 2015: Raw internet example – returned as counterfeit
Late 2015: Example from a known suspect TPG submission (“Not Genuine”)

Full interestin story here: https://coinweek.com/counterfeits/struck-counterfeit-coin-of-the-week-1927-s-standing-liberty-quarter-1-page-attribution-guide/

Hemispherical

Thanks @1630Boston. @burfle23 has done quite a bit of research. Good to see researchers hunting down and letting everyone know the diagnostics on these bad coins.

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/12183690

burfle23

Thanks for the post @1630Boston, Coin Week has been kind with continuing to publish the research articles as completed.

Namvet69

Yup, I agree. I look forward to Coinweek articles on fakes. Exposing them is important for us all. Peace Roy

ricko

Excellent post... will help a lot of collectors.... Cheers, RickO