Educational Post #2 Updated
jdimmick
Posts: 9,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
Here is another coin for you to give opinions on
0
jdimmick
Posts: 9,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
Comments
Looks original. I am not motivated enough to get my counterfeit detection manual out . . . but it looks fine. A nice VF25.
Drunner
We need close-up p[cs of the mintmark and the VDB to authenticate it. Otherwise, it looks like a nice coin.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
It looks like an added mint mark to me. It doesn’t seem to match any known mint mark positions.
Coin Photographer.
In the photo the mintmark and the period between the D and B look wrong, but I would need better, sharper closeups of the PUP's to say one way or the other.
My Collection of Old Holders
Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
There is always this to reference
https://www.pcgs.com/news/counterfeit-vs-authentic-1909-s-vdb-lincoln-cents
Pocket Change Inspector
Okay, here is the deal on this one. I studied the MM when he brought it in. It looked okay, so I flipped it around looked at the VDB and didn't really see anything funky. I didn't spend as much time as I should have becauase I was not purchasing these and there was so much other stuff to go thru for him. So when i submitted it, and the grades posted, I saw that it said counterfeit. I was thinking to my self, darn, I thought the s looked okay, I guess it wasn't. Then when I actually got the coins back I saw where PCGS noted the VDB was added to a S mint coin. So I looked at the VDB again, and sure enough, the diagonal cross bar was not quite right on the B and as somebody mentioned in the post , one of the dots appears to be slightly off. I'm so used to looking at the S for the VDB, sometimes you forget to look at the VDB close as well. I really wanted to bring this to folks attention, dont forget to check the VDB? I might add as well, the area around the VDB is neat and clean as a whistle, as well as the rim. No evidence of tampering at first sight, whoever did this , did a heck of a job adding the vdb. I can tell you as a dealer, at a show buying with a crowd, and little concentration, a very easy coin to make a buying error on if presented.
Educational post indeed - thank you!
The period between the D and B jumped out immediately when I looked at the picture. Thanks for the confirming information. Cheers, RickO