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lanispet- that is awesome! I have never seen anything like that before. Very interesting find!
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Lanispet - It almost looks like a brockage. Quite an interesting error, and one of my favorite types of errors. That wouldn't be the case here, since the imprint is of a different series.
Most likely this happened post-striking.
Also, is this one of those hollow "spy" coins? Because it looks like it's caving in on one side.
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06/15/2008 9:37 pm
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post that on the error forum, I'm sure someone there would know what it is, heck it might even be worth a mint
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It looks like post mint damage. Besides the obvious of two different designs and years, If it were a brockage the power of the coinage press would impress the second design deeper into the host coin. I think this is another example of two coins squeezed together. The Indian Head cent was not exactly centered on the Lincoln Cent so it flattened the rim on the right side of the Licoln and dug in putting an indentation on the left side. |
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I'm pretty sure it was post-minting, both because of the year, and because the reverse of the coin is severely flattened, like somebody stacked the two coins on a railroad track and waited for them to be run over, or something. Unfortunately my gram scale died, so I can't tell if the planchet weight is off.
Was the earlier Indian Head bronze a harder alloy than the 95% copper? If so, that could explain why the IH imprinted the Linc so sharply.
It's anybody's guess how the coin ended up that way, but it's neat to look at... I glad eaglefoot asked for a picture, because the photo picked up a lot of detail in the picture that I couldn't see with the naked eye
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lanispet...... ......it IS interesting though !!... 
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Just today I found a 1929 Wheat cent in VF on the sidewalk. I couldn't believe it. |
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My brother found a 1960 silver dime in his tip change yesterday and gave it to me. Thats the second one for his this month.
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Found in my pocket today. About the size of a Lincoln Cent. France, 10 Centimes, 1963, AU. |
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I found a 1939 no mintmark nickel in my change. I can still see the collums in the montecello and hairlines on the potrait. I know this is a good find but how good is it?
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Elimist, RedBook lists a 1939 from .25c in VF to .50 in EF. The 1939D is the one that's valuable. |
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Two lucky finds, one odd find: 1 penny planchet... partly makes up for the miserable copper percentages I've been getting lately A 1937-P Buffalo nickel in VF condition (i couldn't believe my eyes) A Roosevelt clad dime that was smashed by *something* to the point that it was too large to go through the dime sorter, so it ended up in a Brinks penny roll. |
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My wife works in a bank and lately I have been teasing her because she has not brought any new pennies home for me, she quickly reminded me that I personally have looked at almost everyone there already and that they have not got any new ones in. So when I picked her up on Friday night and she handed me $10 in pennies I was shocked and excited to look through them. Out of the 20 rolls about 14 were copper and the best part was a BU roll of 1974D's that are between MS60-64 condition, made my day.
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Went through $10 of cents and found a 1970 Burmuda with a pig on it. To me, it was interesting, as the only foreign coins I have are roll finds from Canada.
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Took my friend out to lunch for her birthday. She insisted on helping with the tip and ended up dumping a handful of cents on the table. One landed wheat side up. I picked it up and asked her if I could have it. She told me I could. I flipped it over and it was a 1935.
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