1914-D Lincoln. Look okay?

This is all I've got to go on at the moment. Guy didn't send me a reverse pic yet. Looks UNC to me. Look authentic to you guys and gals?

 

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There are a few things that look odd to me. The bottom of the coat at 7. The rim at 9 and the 4 in the date.

 

I’m going to echo these concerns. The rim on the left side initially caught my eye. The location where VDB is on later cents has been extensively tooled. The horizontal bar of the 4 isn’t horizontal, and there is tooling around the digit. Comparing the mintmark position, it looks close to #3, but it does not seem to be a match. @justafarmer

I would pass. Too many red flags. I’d guess altered 1918/9 D.

 

The first thing I saw was the crossbar on the 4. It just doesn't look straight to me.

 

I don't like the 4. There's too much detail for an unslabbed 14-D.
The 1's are long. They should be short and stubby. The 9 is wrong.

 

The 4 looks fishy to me too

 

It looks closet to the one that is numbered #1 , the camera angle could make a difference on the numbers. the number 4 in number 1 also has a curve to it. I am not sure of value but would it be worth somebodies time to fake a 1914 -D Lincoln? Dillan

 

Yeah, it would be, especially if passed off as MS. CDN says an AU58 Brown would be just under $2,000 and shooting up from there.

“Danger, Will Robinson, danger.”

 

Will this is a job for "Ed Woods"

 

The coloring looks odd around the 4 to me.

 

DPF grafitti under Liberty looks as if it was tooled to try and remove the letters.

 

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I think it could very well be an altered 1944D

 

More pics.

 

Maybe an altered 1911 D where the first 1 got upped a little at the top and the 4 made from the last 1? I do think the supposed 1914 D is altered.

 

The mintmark placement and it's shape looks correct for a 14 D. But something is wrong. I don't think it was a 44-D, based on the size and other elements, though.

 

Yes it would! Without a doubt.

 

@justafarmer can you do an overlay on this coin?

@C-B-D there are some odd looking surfaces on this cent in front of Lincolns face and around most of the profile there seems to be another outline of Lincoln. Also the jacket looks either double struck or a light amount of MD.
Also I noticed there is a second l or die chip protruding towards the rim. from Liberty.
This coin does not look like the real deal to me.
Also the E and T on the reverse.
It doesn't look right I would be real leery.

 

Run Forest, run!

 

I just did an overlay on my own, and it is an exact match to mintmark position 3. By “exact,” I mean EXACT. I used a transparency overlay, which is only good in GIF format, so I don’t have it here. It was not a result I was expecting at all, and makes me consider the possibility that this coin was just damaged in exactly the wrong ways.

If you do buy it, I would not be surprised if it gets “Authenticity Unverifiable” from the TPGs.

 

Thanks. I knew that date and mintmark position... but the 4 digit looks weird. Funnily enough, this came from a guy whose father in law passed away about 10 years ago. He claim to know nothing about coins. But his father in law had a ton of genuine coins, mostly rolls of Lincolns. He did have one other that was not correct. The paper flip had "1916 matte proof Lincoln" written on it. But it was a cleaned business strike.