1960 D Large Over Small Reeded Penny - Rare Error ?

rh13 one of the first things I did was put a magnet to the coin with no positive result. scubu & DVCollector
my screen name is simply the first three letters of both my first and last name...lol. I can assure you all that I am not a machinist by trade or otherwise lol... fenton nice observation but, if the incorrect collar were used to apply the reeding would (hypothetical) that also cause similar distortions with the reeding?
I do believe that I may have asked this question prior but I do not recall if anyone replied with a answer (maybe because I did not pose the question properly). When did the mint stop using open collars? What are the main differences between closed and open collars that prompted a change by the mint?

Interesteing how 5 pages of rephrasing the question continues to result in the same answer.....

And on all the other forums he's posting on too.

Hey I found a photo that sums up the whole saga...



It just won't work......

scubu, why waste your time? move on... I already said at the end of the day "it is what it is and it ain't what it ain't"... dumprat, I post on other sites to hear something I may not have heard here(.) There are other "experts" outside of this community. some of the answers given by the experts here were "not always" accurate...and not not here to go around and around with people. Once I satisfy my own curiosity, I will be done.

what expert gave you a " not always accurate " repley

Im not a expert I never said the mint used a open collar in 1960. All I said was "what if" the mint used a open collar in 1960 ?
"WHAT IF " is not a yes or no .

Who,what,when,why and how are questions

Well, the only way you can end this then is by sending it out to get it authenticated. You will be out a few bucks but then it will be over with.

It is simply a novelty coin like other cents that have everything from states, presidents, angels, doves, etc etched into them.

I think this thread would have answered micmar's queries better if he hadn't posted the pic. Most of us, me included, jumped in and said it wasn't possible to have an error like this. Period. We may be right.

But, if micmar had asked, without posting a pic or even mentioning the existence of this coin "Is it possible to mistakenly mint a U.S. cent that would have reeding?", would this thread have taken a different road?

That is what he has been trying to find out. He wants to know why this is or isn't possible.

It took me a while to realize this. On another forum, he's been getting a few answers that are more in line to what he's looking for.
Mainly the documentation/proof as to why it couldn't be a foreign planchet; why it couldn't be a dime collar etc..

When I first started collecting, I liked errors. I would post all kinds of coins with PMD thinking they were rare errors. It wasn't until I learned the minting process that I was finally able to understand why an anomaly was an error or PMD.

Some people want to see the information for themselves. I'm guilty a lot of the times when I see an obvious PMD coin posted by a newbie by throwing out an answer like " PMD" without an explanation one way or the other.

Because of micmar's persistence in his quest, I've learned a few things about the history of coin production while trying to provide the answers he was looking for.