Without a picture, no one can tell you anything. With a picture, it will be easy to identify SOME fakes, but impossible to prove authenticy....
For the 31-S, it is entirely possible there are more red than others. There are stories out there of many bags of those cents being purchased...
Actually, the 31-S is one of the least extreme price increases. The 1924-S is $2,600 in 65RB, but $27,500 65 red. Now there is an extreme. The...
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I agree!
64 65 PL 65
66 might go 67 if you are lucky.
NGC 55
63 Clean coin but lacks luster
Most commonly they literally cut it off a non-valuable coin and glue it on the coin to be altered.
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They used the same punch 1909 - 1916 for the MM. And, FWIW, they used the same punch for ALL San Francisco coins during that time. However, the...
A magnet will tell you quickly if it is steel. My guess is that is just an a bused penny or zinc coated.
64 63+ CAM 65
AU details - cleaned and tooled?
Nearly all of that is from PMD. I do see what looks like a couple die chips at the date and what might be the remnants of a lamination under...
AU details. There is a lot of rim damage on that coin.
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