1944-S Lincoln Wheat Cent Two Mintmarks - Date In Hair

Ahh, as coop identified, you would basically have to re-cast the die as well so that the impression was of the proper alignment. If you spent the time to recast a die to strike the front and cast a metal mold to maintain the shape of the rear, you might as well just go the whole route and start minting funny money :)

All that means is that you ripped someone off with a damaged coin.

Pennypal, this is not an attempt at slander or anything of the sort. Statements of truth, however are not slanderous.

The fact is that you sold a coin or are using a coin that you apparently did not describe correctly. That fact that you got more than 1 cent for as a damaged coin did not do the buyer a service even if it is your husband.

The fact is, as stated before. The lettering and details are impressed into the coin and reversed. That is exactly what happens when one coin is impressed into another one outside of the Mint.

It is unfortunate that the coin is being used as a marketing tool as it is probably being described as something it is not.

In the numismatic field they are known as "hammer jobs", "vise jobs" or "squeeze jobs".

Whether intentional or not and I fully suspect that your intention was not to sell or use a damaged coin, it is indeed what you did.

The folks who responded to your post are some of the most knowledgeable people in numismatics and the right thing to do would be to thank them and then let your husband know that he might be representing the coin incorrectly.

An incorrect representation on his part may open him up to legal action. This is just a friendly word of caution.

Thanks,
foundinrolls

If he is a member of a "national coin club" then he should be knowledgeable enough to be able to see that the coin is post-mint damage.


Multiple people answered your question, you refused to accept it- we only try to help but apparently you only want confirmation of your own wrong assumptions about a damaged coin.

Wow. Just wow.

As others have said, this is a crude act of vandalism. Your cent was squeezed between or hammered between two other cents. All you need is a hammer, vise, or clamp.

My statement doesn't change; what I stated was factual. If you represented the coin as being worth more than face value and someone else received the coin thinking it was worth more than face value because of your representation, you ripped them off, regardless of whether you are related to the person or whether any money changed hands for the coin. If the receiver walked away thinking they had more than a damaged cent they were ripped off. That's not slander, it's a fact backed by your own image and your own statement.

Furthermore I don't need to know anyone to know whether they are ripping others off. I need to know the subject of what they are selling or representing, and in this case I do. Knowing the person who is committing the act is completely unimportant. The statement isn't about the person, it's about what the person is doing...if you don't like people saying you're ripping people off, then stop ripping people off. It's really that simple.

$2 bills aren't errors, they are normal. Your coin isn't an error, it's damaged. Tossing the word 'error' around like it's an all-encompassing excuse to sell something that doesn't look like every day pocket change is incorrect and irresponsible.