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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 4005715, member: 73165&quot;]The coin is unquestionably fake.&nbsp; In order for it to be real, you have to explain a few things:</p><p><br /></p><ol> <li>Why was a wheat reverse die still around at the Denver mint in 1959?&nbsp; They should have all been retired as part of the design change.</li> <li>Why is there only one of these coins known?&nbsp; Even if you can explain how the reverse die was even at the Denver mint, if it was installed in one of the presses by mistake, thousands of these coins would have been minted.</li> <li>If thousands were minted, surely mint QC would have flagged them.&nbsp; They&#039;re pretty good at picking out errors, so, surely thousands of wheat cents struck in the wrong year wouldn&#039;t have all gotten past them.</li> <li>What&#039;s with all the die polish?&nbsp; There should be other 1959-D obverse dies or 1958-D reverse dies with the same die polish lines if this were a genuine Mint product, but I haven&#039;t heard about any.</li> <li>ANACS declined to authenticate the coin because they couldn&#039;t prove it was produced by the US Mint.</li> </ol><p>That said, this is still a cool piece with a neat history.&nbsp; If it weren&#039;t a $50,000 coin, I would love to own it.</p><p><br /></p><p>See <a href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/controversial-1959-d-cent-mule-heads-to-auction.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/controversial-1959-d-cent-mule-heads-to-auction.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/controversial-1959-d-cent-mule-heads-to-auction.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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