1959-D wheat back cent

Interesting...I wonder if it really is real.
http://www.coinworld.com/news/070802/news-1.asp

http://www.coinfacts.com/small_cents/lincoln_cents/wheat_ear_cents/1959d_one_cent_wheat_ears.htm

 

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... wow....

nice article indicating yet another dream for us common collectors lol

 

I would say the Secret Service knows its stuff. I believe it's authentic.

 

I thought it was later established that this coin was a fake, but I may be mistaken.

 

here is a large pic of it

http://boards.collectors-society.com/showflat.php?Number=1544116

if he did make it..how Im wondering

 

Thre were others that were declared fakes, but this one has been accepted as the only one known as genuine.

 

There is still quite a bit of doubt as to the authenticity of this coin. The TPGs will not grade it, as they cannot confirm that it is real. I know that many of the leading coin dealers are skeptical of the coin, stating that something does not look "right" about it.

I believe that one of the nation's most prominent error dealers has stated that the coin has a "dead" look to it. Under magnification, it apparently shows little natural texture to the metal and has no flow lines on the planchet.

I think that although many are doubtful as to its authenticity, they cannot conclusively point to anything that would label it as a counterfeit. So, therefore, the jury is still out on the 1959-D Wheat Cent.

 

Probably a fake but it is nice to imagine coins like a that 59 with a wheat back, 43 Copper cent, 44 Steel cent, 46 Mercury dime. I think it would be fun if all such coins were for real.

 

There's about 40 genuine 1943 cents struck on leftover bronze planchets.

Lou

 

I have my doubts

Not that it would not be possible but I think the collecting world would have heard of this sooner. I did see one in 1977, but it was obvious altered by machining a 1959 D reverse and a 1958 obverse and literally ahering them together. the seam was very eazy to locate after close inspection. Sadly the fool that bought was ingorant of this typew of scam and would have bought the Brooklyn Bridge.

 

It could be a deliberate illegal muling of the 1959D obverse with a reverse of the 1958D 1c..As to whether or not it is genuine,we just don't know.

Aidan.

 

dd: It could be that someone altered the "3" in a 1939 wheat ears cent to make it appear as a "5." I wonder..........