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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blue_oxen, post: 1744024, member: 19714&quot;]I have noticed that there have been a couple of people asking about the 1909 S V.B.D cents recently. As this is something I have been trying to educate myself on I thought I would share a couple of the simplest ways to identify the most common fakes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Below I will show a Fake example with a real 1909 S V.D.B below it. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>#1 look at the mint mark </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Fake </font></p><p><img src="http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae338/coinpix/1909fales.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Real</font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae338/coinpix/1909reals.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>#2 look at the reverse of the coin a real 1909 S V.D.B will have a shallow N </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Fake</font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae338/coinpix/1909faleunited.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Real </font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae338/coinpix/1909realunited.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p># 3 On the revers of A real 1909 S V.D.B the dot in between the D and the B will be in the center and not to one side.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Fake</font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae338/coinpix/1909falevdb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Real</font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae338/coinpix/1909realvdb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you have any more tricks pleas share . Hope this helped someone.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Edit I will try to add the contributions from this thread to the original post as they come . </p><p><br /></p><p>Mint Mark Positions thanks to rlm&#039;s cents</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae338/coinpix/mintmarklocation.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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