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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CircCam, post: 2802719, member: 85675&quot;]I upgraded my 1848 this morning (a real one) and saw this while checking the coinfacts app.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t know PCGS slabbed counterfeit coins and I don&#039;t recall seeing one listed right with the real thing before.&nbsp; I was expecting to find a red book variety I wasn&#039;t aware of and found this instead.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Plain and simple, the 1848 Small Date Large Cent is a counterfeit, and probably a contemporary one.&nbsp; However, it has been accepted as a collectible coin by the copper community and brings strong prices whenever it appears at auction.&nbsp; Virtually all of the known examples are on over-sized planchets, often double-struck or overstruck on other coins, and at least two show one or more planchet clips.&nbsp; Breen knew of seven in 1988; today the population is 10-12 examples.&nbsp; The Dan Holmes collection (sold in 2011) contained three examples.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]653811[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]653812[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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