was wrong 50,000 pennies not fake!!!

sinin1

At least the picture looks like a fake one to me -> on the reverse there are no steps, just slides.


I am sure it depends on the metal type, but how much would it cost to punch out 50,000 of these - I understand when copper got more expensive back in 1982, they went to plated.

What government agency is in charge of counterfeiting overseas? Is it FBI, CIA, US Marshals?

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millennium

Look real to me....

nwcs

And me.

baccaruda

you're right. the quality of those fakes looks FAR too good to be modern U.S. coinage.

flaminio

Who the *bleep* counterfeits cents? Think of all the trouble one would go through to set up the process -- on the hopes of making, what? $500? I'm sure they're real.

sinin1

Did they recently change the design on the reverse of pennies?

Look very closely at the steps and then compare to any recent pennies you have - I see a difference.

nwcs

What you are seeing is a moire effect from the photography/scanning they did. It's a distortion caused by the optical capabilities of the camera/scanner and the human eye. You can get the same effect by scanning a newsprint picture. The newsprint is halftoned and when not scanned correctly, it will create a moire effect. That's one easy example of how this happens.

thepunkrockcoinguy

look at the front of it though. it looks like it was punch out or something.

nwcs

Looks fine to me. Just a not the best done photograph.

Iampoorman2

There's a fingerprint across the steps. If that's what you are referring to.

hughesm1

I know they're not fake. This seller listed a lot identical to this a year and a half ago and my co-worker (who also happens to be the current high bidder) won them. He went to the Alps on a ski trip and swung by to pick them up. They came in handy as weight in the back of the car, on the return trip he ran into a snowstorm and slick roads.

This guy gets them from various charity organisations, the ones that you can donate all your foreign coins. They take all the pennies as the charities do not want them because it costs too much to ship them back to the originating country. So this guy sells them and gives the proceeds to those organisations.

topstuf

Loog! Der zeller hass tolded du dot du will be STUCKELUNG!

So vot iss der izzue hier? Du egzpegt 1955 DOPPELDIEZENS fur pfennigs?

Ach!