My coworker found this flying eagle in change at our work. She said it was an 1856 to which I told her it was probably fake before I even saw it with less than 1000 minted. Sure enough the date is overstamped, inset, and even out of alignment. What is interesting to me is that someone faked this rare date and yet this counterfeit still ended up in circulation to show up at a grocery store...I mean a flying eagle cent is amazing to find in change, but one someone intentionally tried to pass off as valuable is even weirder to me. Picture is crap, but the insetting and misalignment of the 6 in the date is still pretty clear.
It almost looks like an older alteration with how worn it is. Easy to spot, thats for sure! And the Chinese are getting better with their fakes...ive seen some interesting ones that could fool someone who doesn't know or isn't looking close enough.
One of my dealer buddies has an incredibly crude counterfeit 1913 V-nickel that came to him as part of a large collection years ago. It is so crude that it is comical. He has it in a 2X2 with a crudely handwritten $2,000,000.00 price on the 2X2. It is hilarious...... I wonder sometimes if people do these as a joke or to genuinely try to fraud somebody.
How crude was it @Randy Abercrombie? Was it an altered 1910, or was it something hilariously bad? Regardless, if I had to guess, such a fake would probably be the product of fraud and ignorance combined.
