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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jack D. Young, post: 8033146, member: 93371&quot;]I have written a few posts in this forum as well as a couple of articles published in Coin Week about counterfeit half cent &quot;families&quot; that can be found in many selling venues currently.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1st is the family based on the 1804 C-6 half cent, which is a &quot;spiked chin&quot; variety and collected by many for the diverse reverse die states due to progressive breaks.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1st image here is of one counterfeit example that had been listed for sale in one of the popular selling venues:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1391560[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;As I reviewed previously these can be found with a range of dates from 1800 to at least 1807 with the common &#039;04 C-6 reverse with the earlier die state with crack midway under the fraction denominator to &quot;U&quot;, and &quot;dot&quot; under the 1st &quot;A&quot; of AMERICA.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both top TPGs have had examples submitted for grading including this 1806 from the family:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1391561[/ATTACH] </p><p>The 2nd &quot;family&quot; grouping is based on the classic head obverse and the 1826 C-1 reverse. These also can be found with a wide variety of dates including 1809 through 1836.</p><p><br /></p><p>The following image of my collection &quot;1836&quot; showing the common &#039;26 C-1 reverse with an odd series of &quot;bumps&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1391563[/ATTACH] </p><p>All of these family members have the common reverse with &quot;bumps&quot;, pretty easy to attribute once you look for them...</p><p><br /></p><p>Until yesterday!</p><p><br /></p><p>Reviewing listings by a new seller from the Ukraine on the Bay I casually went through the same old- same old in preparation of reporting the listings when I turned the listed 1836 half cent over and was surprised to see the wrong reverse for these known counterfeits; instead of the &#039;26 C-1 reverse it has the &#039;04 C-6 reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1391564[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Kind of shakes things up with the counterfeiters switching the reverses and starting a possible new &quot;family&quot;...</p><p><br /></p><p>My Coin Week articles on the 1st 2 families can be found at:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://coinweek.com/counterfeits/struck-counterfeit-coins-a-family-of-struck-fake-half-cents/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/counterfeits/struck-counterfeit-coins-a-family-of-struck-fake-half-cents/" rel="nofollow">https://coinweek.com/counterfeits/struck-counterfeit-coins-a-family-of-struck-fake-half-cents/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://coinweek.com/counterfeits/struck-counterfeit-coins-another-all-in-the-family-half-cent-1835-1826/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/counterfeits/struck-counterfeit-coins-another-all-in-the-family-half-cent-1835-1826/" rel="nofollow">https://coinweek.com/counterfeits/struck-counterfeit-coins-another-all-in-the-family-half-cent-1835-1826/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Best, Jack.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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