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Ebay Listing. Looks Fishy To Me, With A Lot Of Bids. Double Denomination

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 Posted 08/22/2018  12:28 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Crazyb0 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The fully logical response would be, with the image of a one cent coin reversed it indicates a Johnny job of course, but this concoction is about impossible seeing the actual dies for a nickel and cent are different sizes...a one cent die would never fit in the housing...

And, a nickel is too large to fit in the chamber for a cent. So either way it's putting a round peg in a square hole...

Now, if Johnny were to become smart, he would try to imitate what could be a "mint assisted error". Which coins fit where? A dime is smaller than a cent, a cent smaller than a nickel. Those combinations do happen on overdstrike, but not with inverse detail... He still has to figure that one out!

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08/22/2018 12:38 am
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 Posted 08/22/2018  02:33 am  Show Profile   Check spru's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add spru to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Well, you didn't give me a chance!


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How can one know it isn't a mint employee "Mint-assisted" error, with a possible die cap?


I will go ahead and give my answer. The coin is a nickel by appearance and weight. Nickel planchets do not fit into a cent press/colllar (very important!). It has reversed lettering! That does not happen too often as a genuine error.
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 Posted 08/22/2018  02:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinBuffalo to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I guess it's not so obvious to me, I wouldn't have thought of that. I should probably do more research on that type of error. I always wondered if any of them were actually legit
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He only other possible explanation I could see, even though it seems highly unlikely would be some sort of clash. I'm assuming you can theoretically put a nickel die and a penny die into he same machine, one being the hammer and one being the anvil and get a clash that way and that would explain the reversal of the devices in ONE CENT. A normal strike it reads the right way but because it's a clash it would leave and image that was incused and reversed.
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