Please......your thoughts on this coin..

millennium · April 28, 2003 2:09PM

Is it real?..Sure looks suspicious.Lookie

FatMan · April 28, 2003 2:16PM

I don't know much about lincoln cents, but what I do know is that the seller does not guarantee its authenticity, suggests the coin is a fake, I do not know the seller, and it is a key date and it is not slabbed. RUN FOREST! RUN!

IMHO

Dog97 · April 28, 2003 3:04PM

If he wants the buyer to be the judge then why don't he post some decent pictures with a closeup necessary to attribute the mm & vdb?

>>>>if it is a fake it is a very good one,and if its real someone will get a 1909sVDB >>>>

It's not even a good one. It looks semi sorta like die # 3 but it's not. A good fake wouldn't have doubled letters either.

FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE

Cam40 · April 28, 2003 3:13PM

see all hes others items for sell? lots and lots of `nice` graded coins.
they,re nice. he grades them all nice..

ARCO · April 28, 2003 3:35PM

If someone doesn't have the brain matter necessary to sell an expensive Key date, highly counterfeited date with a scan that looks like a cat took a crap on it, then no one should bid. Even if it is real, it looks like crud.

Tyler

millennium · April 28, 2003 5:19PM

I am amazed that he has a bid on the coin. I wonder who could look at that coin and bid over $200.00 on it?!?!? Man.

VonZipper · April 28, 2003 9:57PM

If you look at the s mint mark it is lighter than the dark toning underneath it, I would think it should be darker like the 9 on the far right is.

theboz11 · April 28, 2003 10:02PM

excuse my ignorance in the penny area, but aren't the initials supposed to be on the base of the neck on the obverse.

kranky · April 28, 2003 10:17PM

Boz,

The first Lincoln cents in 1909 had the VDB at the bottom of the reverse. But people objected to the prominence of the initials and they were soon removed in the middle of the year. The initials were added to the truncation of the neck in 1918.