(Yes, yet another real or AT post!) 1909 VDB Cent, your thoughts?

Russ

Fake or real?

Russ, NCNE

Bustman

Looks fake to me.

coppercoins

Cents don't turn that color naturally.

Tonekiller

MS70 wash. Try it on a pre 70's 1c and you will get the same color.

TBT

ClausUrch

First impression....Fake

BillJones

Fake. Bad color and those spots on the reverse also give it away.

ksteelheader

This one came from a 20 plus year stay in a whitman holder. I do bear to differ with some opinions. I have seen about a total of a dozen of these from albums. Maybe they do not turn this way naturally, but is an album a natural enviorment????????????????... Ken

BillJones

This 1922-D was cleaned and proably polished before it turned this color. It may have been helped by some MS-70 wash, but even if it was not the exposed medal turned this color probably from residues of the stuff that was used to clean it.

I just sold off a complete Lincoln set that had some coins in it that looked this. I packaged them and sold them cheap to a dealer who will sell them to another dealer who will put them on Ebay, perhaps with lines like, "beautiful, colorful choice original toning."

clw54

<< <i>This one came from a 20 plus year stay in a whitman holder. I do bear to differ with some opinions. I have seen about a total of a dozen of these from albums. Maybe they do not turn this way naturally, but is an album a natural enviorment????????????????... Ken >>


I'd think a cash register or pocket is a natural environment. It's after somebody removes it from change that the coins are tampered with.

ksteelheader

Edited to say nothing. Ken ..............