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Message:: [QUOTE="Insider, post: 24588177, member: 24314"]A little history of the 1955/55 counterfeits.  But first a few words to avoid the risk of being called a <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> know-it-all as some of the "experts" here have done in the past. Consider this when I post something now and in the future... 1. I'm older than all of you except for Doug. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> 2. I was lucky enough to get in on the ground floor of Third-Party coin authentication in this country so I've seen a few counterfeits over the years. The 1955/55 is an expensive coin.  By the 1960's a much better counterfeit (Published in 1963) than the one in the OP existed.  For some prospective, this  example would not have fooled any coin dealer back then; while the better made fake of the time was deceptive enough to fool most dealers.  By the 1970's there were two or three very deceptive fakes of these coins in the market.  The ANA's Certification Service published one of them in the 1980's. If I remember, it is the one with a tiny curved "spur" coming off the top of one of the 5's. IMO, anyone who has a genuine cent made between 1950 and 1957 in AU condition would see that the coin in the OP looks much different -nothing like it should. The key to avoiding counterfeits is a simple rule: Know what a genuine example looks like. That way, even for an experienced professional, you still may not know if a coin is authentic or not but you will know it looks differtnt than it should and that's the "red flag" we all look for.[/QUOTE]

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