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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikediamond, post: 2393751, member: 1859&quot;]Unfortunately, ANACS slabbed what is most likely fake -- a squeeze job.&nbsp; A normal cent was placed between a struck cent on the reverse and some textured disc on the obverse.&nbsp; Here are the problems I see with this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.The orientation of a struck cent fed into a striking chamber on top of a previously struck cent will be random.&nbsp; But here the two busts of Lincoln are perfectly aligned.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. A genuine sandwich strike in which all three coins are struck out-of-collar will ordinarily be much more expanded than this.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. The texture on the obverse does not resemble the texture that would be left by a planchet.&nbsp; Parts of the design are seriously affected while other parts hardly affected at all.&nbsp; It most closely resembles the impression of a &quot;floating encrustation&quot;, but such errors are extraordinarily rare and have only been documented in a few foreign coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. It seems awfully convenient that both dies would have been completely blocked so as to prevent any die-struck details from appearing on your coin as the result of the second strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>This by no means the only fake that the major grading services have encapsulated.&nbsp; I&#039;ve found them in slabs from all of the top-tier services, with NGC and ANACS being the most frequent perpetrators.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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