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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Davada, post: 62280, member: 3344&quot;]The large picture GDJMSP posted was a digital zoom-in of the mint-mark region of the original picture, so it had the same artifact that the original image had, In fact, most resampling algorithms by nature tend to exaggerate those sort of features anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for 1914-D&#039;s, I don&#039;t have nearly the wealth of knowledge as other people on this board, but one of the more common forgeries is to remove a bit of the first 4 of a 1944-D. Here&#039;s a picture:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.coinresource.com/images/articles/1914dad.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This one&#039;s easy to detect; look for wide spacing between the 9 and 1, and the mint mark is somewhat different from a genuine 1914-D.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an article with a few more details:</p><p><a href="http://www.coinresource.com/articles/altered_coins_risk.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinresource.com/articles/altered_coins_risk.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinresource.com/articles/altered_coins_risk.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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