This is one of the hundreds of coins I inherited from a "step" Grandfather about ten years ago. Anyway, I've shown this coin to several coin collectors and responses range from "wow you got to get that checked out it's probably worth a lot!" to "looks like somebody made that on purpose by putting it on a train track or something". Real? Fake?
It's a fake. Someone pressed a cent into the obverse face of your cent. These are variously known as "vise jobs", "hammer jobs", "squeeze jobs", or "sandwich jobs".
Yep that's a fake alright. There are alot of clashed die and double struck fakes out there real good ones but not this one. Alien JAZEC
Yeah I actually sent some pictures to a coin dealer and he thought it was real, but not rare enough to be valuable...which is what lead me to post on here. Before he said that I had never considered pursuing it because it looked like a fake. In any of your opinions, why are you convinced it's a fake. I'd like to be as knowledgeable as I can since eventually I'll probably sell off at least half this collection so I'm just curious.
The giveaway is that the letters "ONE CENT" are reversed and incuse. And most importantly,,,,Mike said it was fake.
