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1955 DDO Authentic or Counterfeit?
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Based upon those images, it's no good.
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Agreed.
Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.
Is it the soft strike or are you seeing something else?
Give your reasons, Gentlemen.
Peeps wanna know.
Pete
I am no expert, but the first thing that looked off to me was the soft central strike, and then the porosity on both rims. Any chance you know the planchet weight?
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My coin is only an AU, but Mr. Lincoln looks a bit ghostly on the OP piece.
Check for two faint die scratches leading downward from the left bar of the T in CENT on the reverse to help establish authenticity. These are two nearly vertical die-polishing lines that form a compressed letter X just left of the T in cent. These lines may be difficult to see on worn or cleaned coins. One die state does not show them at all.
Some, but not all 1955 doubled die cents show a raised lump beneath the left wheat ear, just below the left side of the letter O in OF.
The earliest state of this die also revealed several filing lines which appear raised on the coins. These are found just below the left wheat ear, but these lines disappeared from the die with subsequent repolishing.
First thing I noticed was the goofy T in TRUST.
Sometimes it is best not to say all to keep the counterfeiters from learning. According to my info there was only one die pair used to strike the 55/55 and I do not see the correct pup in the op's photos to be genuine.
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The soft central obverse details immediately set off alarm bells for me.
Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.
Bad to the bone.
Am I correct in saying fake.
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Not good
Compare amongst many other things in comparison the rotation of TY in LIBERTY compared to the real deal.
Edited to add for clarity, the 55 DDO is counter clockwise rotation.
That's what I was just looking at also but my eyes were playing tricks on me looking at it too long. Lol
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HaHa
I had to look at it a few times myself.
Imagine going through all the work to make that and screwing up something so basic ?
Abe's eyes, lips & nose are doubled. They shouldn't be.
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What looks odd to me... the soft center portrait of Lincoln... but the lettering and date are thick and solid and well defined. They don't match with the soft portrait.
Yessir.
I couldn't see the forest for the trees.
Good catch.
I find it's tougher to authenticate from a picture vs. examination in hand.
I tend to get scattered and lose focus ( no pun intended) in pics, but when I have the coin in hand I zoom in right where I need to go.
Much tougher to do with pics.
I still rely heavily on my "gut", and then go from there when authenticating.
You're correct. We don't wanna teach the bad guys.
Didn't think about that.
Pete
Correct,,, not genuine and weight is only 3 grams.
Great thread.... and the coin is definitely fake. Cheers, RickO