glued on mint marks

[walkingdude]

You read about mint marks being glued on, whre are they getting the mint marks? Are they making them?

[coop]

I can think of a couple ways they could do that. One would be shaving the mintmark off another coin and glueing to the faked coin. Another way is something I saw on a coin once, they punched out a portion on the coin, rotated it and placed the cut portion back into the coin probably with glue. It looked wierd. The punched out area was about the size of a paper punch, but it had to be done in a machine shop. The pattern turned really makes you take a second look. Could be added that way, but it is more obvious. Oh a third just came to me. Shaping the field by moving material from that area to make a crude mintmark. It would probably fool a blind person, but maybe not as some can read brail. I know they remove parts of date marks to convert a 1944-D into a 1914-D and also a copper 1948 Cent filed down to appear as a 1943 copper Cent. So adding and subtracting from a design still makes it a fake. Just need to know what to look for when they are being sold as real.....

[walkingdude]

Thanks,

You read about the fake ones and gluing on a mint mark I didn't get where they would get a mint mark from.

[coop]

Always best to know what you are buying before the purchase. It kind of like swimming in Floridia. Check for aligators before getting in rather than the opposite.

[walkingdude]

Sad but so true, I personally don't like the slabbed coins but in those cases I wouldn't have a choice.