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Message:: [QUOTE="ziggy29, post: 28902, member: 1113"]For what it's worth, here's an authentic 1914-D cent.  Note the date style. <img src="http://homepage.mac.com/ziggy29/home/cents/Lincolns/Resources/dobvc.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Many fake 1914-D cents come from altering 1944-D cents.  There are several easy "tells" for spotting it: 1.  The altered '44-D will have "V.D.B." on Lincoln's shoulder.  The genuine 1914-D does not, as these initials were restored to the coin in 1918. 2.  The "4" will be too short and fat; the "4" in an authentic 1914-D cent is taller and leaner. 3.  There will be an unusually large gap between the "9" and the second "1" in an altered 1944-D cent.  You can visualize this by imagining a 1944-D cent without the diagonal and horizontal line components of the first number "4" and leaving only the vertical bar from the number in place. Here is an example of an altered 1944-D: <img src="http://forums.collectors.com/attachments/1914D4%2Ejpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Unfortunately, not all fake '14-D cents are this easy to spot.  One can add a mintmark to a 1914 Philadelphia cent.  Here the best defense is to know the style and location of the "D" mintmark on an authentic piece, to look for "seams" between the mintmark and the surrounding field under high magnification (to look for an added mintmark) and to look at the edge near the mintmark to look for signs that no hole was bored into the side of the coin in order to "emboss" a D mint mark from underneath the coin.[/QUOTE]

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