Fake 1926 Sesquicentennial $2 1/2 PCGS MS65?

The more I start looking at coins after seeing all the PCGS videos on detecting counterfeit coins;

The more I think many are fake.

Even this one, graded MS65, yet look at the 1926 date, its mushy and weak, lots of little divots revealing crud on the die. Look at "We Trust" on the reverse, its hideous, the huge divot under "Pluribus", as well as the overall porous and pocked planchette giving it all away.

Or am I just a paranoid idiot?

 

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Looks real to me, I don't see anything about it that looks fake at all. I have two of them but one is a pendant that I wear all the time. Here's a couple of pics, the other coin is locked away.

 

I'm a Philly guy and always have one, I hope no one buys that one.

 

This coin was struck in very low relief. Therefore it’s no surprising that some design elements are not strong. I think that the OP coin is genuine.

 

Frankly I like Dwhiz's MS-62 a lot more than Winkler's MS-65.

 

@Conder101
Thank you, I think it's under graded IMHO

 

Looks legit to me

 

Looks good to me. Here's mine...........

 

That’s because the coin in the original post should never have graded MS65. I like @green18’s coin best :-D

 

I still prefer Dwhiz's, strike appears to be much better.

 

FYI:

planchette
[planˈSHet]
NOUN

1. a small board supported on casters, typically heart-shaped and fitted with a vertical pencil, used for automatic writing and in seances.
   "the planchette jerked and skittered to the upper left-hand corner of the paper"

planchet
[ˈplan(t)SHət]
NOUN

1. a plain metal disk from which a coin is made.