Help with this Flying Eagle cent

There are several articles about spark erosion dies being made to counterfeit coins, especially small cents to market them as mint state. This looks lie such a counterfeit to me. I have the full set of Longacre's Ledgers and scanned them for the Fly-In Club. See Pages 8 & 9 of this edition: http://www.fly-inclub.org/files/ll_vol_163_issue_68.pdf

Your photo is an excellent example of what I think is counterfeit produced from a spark erosion die. If you do purchase it, (maybe after convincing the seller it is counterfeit and offering them a fair price for a counterfeit coin), consider sending it into Rick Snow for examination. https://www.indiancent.com/

 

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