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 RobertSenior Member
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Joined: 05 Jul 2003
Location: Oklahoma
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Not about varieties, but it is about a Lincoln cent.
Coin World article, Sep 6 issue page 2, says a man (Charles Larson) made a fake 1959 mule cent w/ wheat reverse supposedly made by the same method Mark Hofmann supposedly used to make the first one. Hoffman claims to have made the one that surfaced in the 1970s or 80s. That one was found to be genuine by the Secret Service and was sold for $48,300 in 2002 in an auction by Ira and Larry Goldberg Coins and Collectibles.
Larson donated the coin he made to the ANA for their counterfeit detection reference section.
They give a website for Charles Larson:
[/url]http://www.coinsmith.com/index2.htm[url][/url]
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SequiturNew Member
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Joined: 01 Aug 2004
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 coppercoinsSite Admin
Posts: 2809
Joined: 29 Jun 2003
Location: Springfield, Missouri.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:51 am |
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Larson and I signed books next to each other at the ANA show. He introduced himself to me and we started talking about what each of us wrote about. He went through his process with me, and it's quite fascinating. Really a nice guy. We ended up swapping signed copies of our books.
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www.coppercoins.com
cd@coppercoins.com
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