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No Date Lincoln Memorial Cent Mint Error - Split After Strike 1.65g

 
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 Posted 03/17/2023  4:29 pm Show Profile   Check tropicalbats's eBay Listings Bookmark this topic Add tropicalbats to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Continuing to be an underappreciated error coin, this one was put up on ebay starting at $9.99 and I won it at $11.50 with free shipping. That's just hard to beat for a full-obverse, naked-eye visible error coin.

No date Lincoln Memorial cent mint error - split after strike 1.65g



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 Posted 03/17/2023  4:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Tacc to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Woah! What exactly causes this?
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 Posted 03/17/2023  4:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add -makecents- to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Very cool and in my opinion, a great deal! I agree, I would probably pay more for this than the overrated Cud.
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 Posted 03/17/2023  4:45 pm  Show Profile   Check tropicalbats's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add tropicalbats to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Cause is pretty simple. When the metal is rolled a laminar weakness can occur and cause problems later. Lots of examples of lamination errors out there. But in this case the weakness was pretty close to right down the middle of the planchet, and when the coin was struck, or at some point after that, the two halves separated. Somewhere there is, or was, the other half of this coin.
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 Posted 03/17/2023  5:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Tacc to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Very wild stuff! Would this mean that this is NOT a zinc planchet type?
Or perhaps it definitely has to be a zinc?
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 Posted 03/17/2023  5:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Reno911 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I like how you can see the memorial/ Reverse showing on the Obverse, and it's upside down, it's so cool
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 Posted 03/17/2023  5:07 pm  Show Profile   Check tropicalbats's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add tropicalbats to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Won't happen on a zinc cent, so this one is 1959-1982. Probably could narrow it down a bit by studying the reverse type.
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 Posted 03/17/2023  5:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Very interesting, thanks!
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 Posted 03/17/2023  6:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nickelsearcher to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Fantastic example.
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 Posted 03/17/2023  7:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Tacc to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Won't happen on a zinc cent, so this one is 1959-1982

Ahhh Sooo.
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 Posted 03/17/2023  7:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Reno911 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
How would one even begin to figure out the date? Seems like one heck of a task. This would be a awesome contest game for here, Guess the date lololo

Me I'd say it was from the 70's with a D mint mark if I were playing or had to guess lololo
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 Posted 03/17/2023  7:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This it is pre 1962 when they change from cooper-zinc-tin to cooper-zinc. The way split is the first alloy I mention. Structural horizontal molecular separation.
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