1967 Cent Struck Through Struck Fragment

Wow!.......these photos have nothing to do with my error type unless they were posted randomly. So far off from what I am presenting that I don't even know what to say. Frustrating but everyone can have their own opinion, enough said.

Sorry if it looked like your thread was being hijacked, Zimmy. I think Zonad was just trying to show a couple of more extreme examples of the effect shown on your coins. No offense was meant; your coins are fantastic.

Sometimes I get a little testy but this error type is pretty scarce and although I have numerous examples, many of which aren't shown, it has taken me years to accumulate. In all my years of collecting, I have never seen a Buffalo nickel of this type although I am sure there are some out there.

This thread has been very interesting. As it has helped me with the condition that I have listed in the following post:

https://goccf.com/t/150328

It is a Canadian toonie and after viewing this thread I can actually see part of the impression of A from "Canada" reverse show up on the obverse. I guess I will have to weigh the coin to determine whether it is a condition similar to Zonad or to Zimmy.

Thank you

There is no missing portion on these struck throughs. The planchets start as normal weight, fully formed planchets before they are struck. The image on the struck coin is caused from the transfer of design from the struck fragment bonded to the die. The depression is caused by the fragment being struck into the planchet. The depth of the struck through area will depend on how thick the fragment is.

Paisa, It does seem to match up nicely and the image does look like part of the A but hard to tell for sure from your pictures. If it is struck through a struck fragment, then it is a weaker example.

I have a few struck-in cents and they're really interesting to examine and detect the process that caused them--based upon easy visual clues. I have:
1) an 1859 Indian Head with a struck-in piece of steel die (responds VIGOROUSLY to a magnet) driven into the planchet from the hammer-die (obverse) side without piercing through to the reverse--it displays a correspondingly large cud-like area on the reverse, with no portion of the reverse being penetrated. The magnet also reacts to the steel inside the coin on the reverse, through the Cu-Ni. There is a raised metal-flow edge on the obverse around the entry-point of the struck-in die fragment, like the rim of an impact crater; and,
2) an 1863 Indian Head with a round copper fragment driven through the coin by the press. This fragment pierces the coin completely, and it has significant metal flow raised edges around the penetration site on BOTH sides of the coin. Both of these fragments--in the 1859, and the 1863--are about the size of a dried lentil; and
3) a delightful discovery--a 1926-S Lincoln with two struck-in fragments of GOLD in the reverse that seem to literally GLOW due to the inclusive coin having a nice dark chocolate brown patina. One fragment appears like a smear of gold, with no raised portions around the fragment, but the second fragment must be significantly larger, because it displays a raised metal-flow edge all around the entry point of that gold fragment into the planchet. There is no distortion seen on the obverse that indicates that there is any struck-in fragment from the reverse, but the wear level of the coin might indicate that any evidence of a retained fragment that appeared upon the obverse was worn away with time and friction. The only US gold coins that the San Francisco Mint struck in 1926 were $20 Double Eagles, so any fragments falling into the presses that year would, of necessity, be due to the coinage of St. Gaudens Double Eagles. The gold fragment in the 26-S Lincoln must have fallen into the empty strike chamber between the dies of the press, then there was a planchet fed on top of it. I can be reasonably sure of this, because the gold fragment was struck in from the anvil die (reverse) side. It weighs in at 3.14 grams, even though it is worn to the level of an AG-03 graded Lincoln. A comparably worn AG-03, 1919 Lincoln that I have weighs 3.04 grams. and another AG-03 Lincoln, dated 1927-D, weighs in @3.05 grams. If anyone is interested, I'll take and post a few pics.

I'm interesting in seeing pictures Phuqit.