WoW guys! Saw this on another forum. The guy is having it looked at by real professionals. I wished him good luck... What are your thoughts and what can you say to someone that it just isn't so? He says there are no seams to speak of. So? How do the people who made this do it? "Names have been changed to protect the innocent." Let's talk coins ......
I thought a couple of those turned up a few years ago, and were eventually determined to be recent fakes...?
To speak of? Quite a hedge there, considering. I'm getting the feeling this is a laser etched die. While the strange crosshatch in the wheat could be an artifact of the image, it's seen nowhere else in the photo and I don't see it on the obverse. There's also the odd pimple in the left one.
Yeah. This thread had me interested, so I researched. I am not a cents guy, always wondered what mule coin was. Maybe it was a prank by a mint employee? Interesting.
No idea. I don't really know the process with a "laser etched die" either, just something posted in the Canadian forum on CCF many years ago that stuck in my head. It was an 1881 or 1882 cent gem red that fooled the ICCS graders, but it had the wrong obverse or something. Similar almost microscope parallel lines from the laser etching the die.
