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1937 Wheat Penny Struck Over Foreign Coin?!

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 Posted 02/21/2019  9:25 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Storagequeen to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
.something different and alot going on here. I'm seeing some letters, stars, numbers possibly animals.weighs 3.04g what do u think? Could this be stamped over a foreign coin? Do you recognize anything? Ps.. Sorry I couldnt get the pics right side up!
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It's just some coincidental damage, residue, and staining. No errors here. One thing to remember when talking about a US coin struck on a foreign planchet, always try to give a weight. Forgein planchets can be made of brass, aluminum, silver, copper, etc.

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 Posted 02/21/2019  9:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Just a normal coin. What you're seeing is called Pareidolia.
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 Posted 02/21/2019  10:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinHunter27 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Also-3.04 grams is within mint tolerance, so that is normal too.

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 Posted 02/21/2019  10:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Storagequeen to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I see a number 7 clear as day in the 7th pic and the 3rd pic has a star underneath the 'e'..maybe u arent seeing what I'm talking about.. These are not a coincidence!
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Looks like it could be an L also
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I don't know. I do see what almost looks like clash marks. Unfortunately the resolution is just not fine enough for these old eyes. I DO see something of interest.

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 Posted 02/21/2019  11:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Storagequeen to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Im leaning towards a liberty penny..
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What's a "liberty penny?"
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 Posted 02/22/2019  07:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jlam79 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I have to agree with coinhunter and errersandveriety.
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When you see something on a coin remember, that unless it is raised like other devices, it was not on the die. Why do I say that? A die is a negative. Something on the die that in incuse (devices, bust, designs) create on coins a raised area. Chips, cracks, Cuds, die scratches, die dots, die dents, die gouges although not hubbed in on the die shows as raised areas. Raised areas on the die creates incuse marks on the coins. So when you see something on the fields that is not raised, then it is not on the die. The eye conceives that something is there, but if it isn't raised it's not a die issue.
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Coop, if the U.S. die was struick over a previously struck foreign coin ( Which Is HIGHLY unlikely ) Wouldn't the field of the U.S. Coin flatten the previous foreign devices ?
If a coin was actually struck over a foreign coin, it would have to be deliberate by the operator I would think.

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Even double strikes loose a lot of detail. So much you have to make a side buy sides to show what is there.
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Coop, if the U.S. die was struick over a previously struck foreign coin ( Which Is HIGHLY unlikely ) Wouldn't the field of the U.S. Coin flatten the previous foreign devices ?

It is possible the fields in the second strike would flatten the raised devices in those areas, but the raised devices from the first strike would be fairly clear in the raised devices of the second strike. So you would look for flattened devices in the fields and raised devices on the high relief areas of the second strike. This coin shows neither.
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 Posted 02/23/2019  12:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Storagequeen to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
So how is it that I'm seeing these letters and numbers.. I'm not buying the coincidental staining and residue theory..could it be that it was stuck to another coin for a long period of time..and then residue stained it



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