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New and better Pics of the 1914 - D Lincoln cent...

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chinook

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Hard to say from the scan but the fields look very mark free. Usually you would find more ticks and dings. This date has been very heavily counterfeited. Here is a scan of my fake. The detail is f-vf but it is weakly struck-typical of struck copies. The fields show virtually no wear, which would be unusual for a vf coin.

 

Your coin looks great. If it is genuine I would grade it AU. The wear that you see, I think, is just a slightly weak strike. Definately send it in. NGC and ANACS are great at detecting counterfeits.

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RobertB

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I am sure I'm mistaken, but when I first saw the first picture I thought, 'that D looks fake.' I am by no means an expert on this series, but I honestly and objectively thought that first off. Like I said though, I'm sure I'm wrong. Send that sucka in!! popcorn.gif

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Bruceswar

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I went back and compared the D with others from that series... seems to be in line with them all... and in the set I am working on there are many that have clean fields yet would only get a VF 20 or so.... but we will see when I send it in..

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jtryka

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That's really the problem with some of the key Lincolns, there are so many fakes and altered dates out there. I started my set when I was 10 or 12, so it's been well over 20 years, and in the last couple years I finally added a couple, so I am down to the 09-S VDB, 14-D and 22 plain. But for each of those, I will likely buy a slabbed one and crack it out for my album, just to be more sure!

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chinook

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Definately buy only certified key dates . Besides the 14-D, I also have an 09-S, 09-S VDB and an 09-S IHC that are fake. These all came from one collection. Luckily I didn't buy them, just sent them in for the collector.

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