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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lkeigwin, post: 2650134, member: 30400&quot;]Thanks, fellas, for the effort!</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought this six years ago and I have reason to believe the prior owner (whose daughter I know well) had it for some years. So I&#039;m not sure how &quot;modern&quot; a counterfeit it might be.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can set up a photographic object lens (&quot;objective&quot;) and shoot a super close-up of the mintmark. Maybe use image stacking for the best look. But I don&#039;t think it will reveal anything conclusive.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always been suspicious of the darker area under the date (the darkness is not as prominent in hand as the photos depicts). I don&#039;t see any shenanigans at the rim, FWIW.</p><p><br /></p><p>The microscopic raised dots are not visible with a 9x loupe. But the 200mm macro lens shows them clearly enough.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then there&#039;s the die chip in S in TRUST I mentioned. I&#039;ve looked at 10-15 other S-VDB&#039;s from this die and I haven&#039;t seen one like it. I did find one non-S VDB with something similar (PCGS cert# 26371099...I can&#039;t download a very large TrueView of it...it&#039;s incomplete...something wrong with the TV image?).</p><p><br /></p><p>This non-S VDB also has a V.D.B. like mine, with the second dot centered between the D and B...just like a real S-VDB. I think these non-S VDB&#039;s are a little scarcer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, mystery not solved but fun detective work.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess I&#039;ll put this back in the Dansco and let my heirs deal with it some day.</p><p>Lance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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