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1957 D Lincoln Wheat Cent Mint Error - Off Center

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 Posted 02/28/2022  04:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list
Would the darkness around the features indicate an old cleaning?
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 Posted 02/28/2022  07:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lawest to your friends list

Another nice one, I like the off-centers where you can see the full date and Lincoln's face
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 Posted 02/28/2022  07:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ijn1944 to your friends list
Very nice example. Would love to see a significant off-center strike where woody and/or lamination issues are present.
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 Posted 02/28/2022  09:08 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
That's a nice one!
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 Posted 02/28/2022  09:46 am  Show Profile   Check nss-52's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add nss-52 to your friends list

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Would the darkness around the features indicate an old cleaning?
In my opinion, no.
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 Posted 02/28/2022  10:12 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mcshilling to your friends list
You are finding some real nice error coins, congrats.
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 Posted 02/28/2022  10:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list
Beautiful chocolate color on this one. It is really pleasing to look at.
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 Posted 02/28/2022  12:26 pm  Show Profile   Check tropicalbats's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add tropicalbats to your friends list
Thanks folks! Yeah, it's not been cleaned but certainly a change around the devices can indicate that. For coins in the AU range it usually just means that while the coin was briefly circulating, that's the area which was protected from direct finger touching, so it gets a different toning look than the flat fields and such. I did end up putting the micrometer on it, and it comes out as 52% off center (9.1mm/19mm).
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 Posted 02/28/2022  4:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nick10 to your friends list
and it's a very appropriate date for a half-off-center, it marks a century since the last Half Cent was minted
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 Posted 03/01/2022  5:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list
@TROP. Thanks give the exact dimension. In the first I gone by photos. NOW I have and I will give you where you are with your coin.

The 55% it is 8.53 mm and the 60% it is 9.37 mm. (When the gauche will be out of the production the forum will have 100 free to distribution to members, hope they will give you one)
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 Posted 03/02/2022  10:47 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Zimmy to your friends list
I can eyeball the coin and tell it is no more than 55% off center. Draw a diameter line from top center to bottom center of the planchet and its not much more than 50% off center. Am I missing something?
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 Posted 03/02/2022  10:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list
Sorry Zimmy, you miss the Pythagoras circle formulas and law. It is very complex calculus. The diameter it is only one of the components of the calculus. By eye do not work.

PS the most simple formula it is:

1957-D-Lincoln-Wheat-Cent-Mint-Error---Off-Center
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 Posted 03/02/2022  12:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list
1957-D-Lincoln-Wheat-Cent-Mint-Error---Off-Center
Each rim thickness would change the off center by 4%.
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 Posted 03/02/2022  5:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Cujohn to your friends list
They told me math wasn't going to be involved.
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 Posted 03/02/2022  9:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list
HeHeHe Cujohn. You are funny, but who are they?!!!!!
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