09SVDB, Its Phony, Wrong Designers Initials. Help report this one!

MarkW63

Likely altered.
I saw some information about these 09SVDB fakes and I've heard of the "S" mint mark being added, but the article made claims to VDB's being added! I'm thinking (wondering) if this could fall into that class?
The "N" in UNITED looks to be a deep valley too.
All the other details of the coin both obverse & reverse looks pretty darn good.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/384485330018?hash=item59851c8c62:g:aFQAAOSw87BhhafD

ChrisH821

I bet there is a seam on the edge. Looks like a genuine S obverse mated to a philly reverse.

messydesk

If I compare to the close-up on CoinFacts, the initials are slightly off. They're not exactly in the right place and the B is the wrong shape. Whoever added them is good at making alterations, but not good enough. The entire lower part of the reverse may have been smoothed to hide the alteration.

MarkW63

This is from NGC's web site (so is both the images)

ricko

Looks like another fakeroo.... Cheers, RickO

WAYNEAS

Another catch for you Mark.
Still active as of this post.
Wayne

MarkW63

@WAYNEAS said:
Another catch for you Mark.
Still active as of this post.
Wayne

I know its been reported, I don't know how many times, but I'm thinking the wind is going to blow pretty soon.

WAYNEAS

Hopefully soon.
Wayne

MarkW63

@WAYNEAS said:
Hopefully soon.
Wayne

I now know that the seller has also been contacted!

MarkW63

Okay, the seller has been contacted, they were sent the NGC image that's in an above post explaining the problem with the VDB and they've not responded nor have they removed the listing.
I only know of one report to ebay, so, its seem that its going to take several ebay reports to get it taken down.

Steven59

The listing is still up. Strange cent because that sure looks like an 09P reverse with the close D dot and the deep valley N

MarkW63

@Steven59 said:
The listing is still up. Strange cent because that sure looks like an 09P reverse with the close D dot and the deep valley N

I think its going to take several reporting this one to ebay to get it taken down. So far I only know of one report to the seller and one report to ebay, and just this morning the wind blew & POOF! another down.
Thanks to everyone for you help in getting another listing taken down, Great Job!

IkesT

Gone now.