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Posted 10/24/2020 10:45 am
Thanks for the input! I've lightly bounced it around on my desktop a number of times to listen to it, and it does not sound hollow. I also have a lot of Kennedy magicians coins so kind of know that hollow sound they make.
But Coop, rotated dies "happens all the time?" Maybe on some of the old Colonial stuff, but as far as I know there are only 5 years during the entire run of wheat cents with rotated dies greater than 90 degrees and none after the 1940-S example. Finding a new year, especially a year as well-studied as 1943, seems hard to believe. I didn't measure this one but looks to be around 120 degrees.
But short of actually trying to make a fake rotated die coin, why would this actually be done to a coin? All the Lincoln magician coins I have are either heads-heads or tails-tails or hollow to fit a dime on one side.
Anyway, the comments here are letting me start to think maybe it is legit, but not really sure.
One thing I do notice is that both sides of the coin seem to have weathered (turned black) in the same fashion, so if it was altered it was a long time ago.
But Coop, rotated dies "happens all the time?" Maybe on some of the old Colonial stuff, but as far as I know there are only 5 years during the entire run of wheat cents with rotated dies greater than 90 degrees and none after the 1940-S example. Finding a new year, especially a year as well-studied as 1943, seems hard to believe. I didn't measure this one but looks to be around 120 degrees.
But short of actually trying to make a fake rotated die coin, why would this actually be done to a coin? All the Lincoln magician coins I have are either heads-heads or tails-tails or hollow to fit a dime on one side.
Anyway, the comments here are letting me start to think maybe it is legit, but not really sure.
One thing I do notice is that both sides of the coin seem to have weathered (turned black) in the same fashion, so if it was altered it was a long time ago.
