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New Member
Canada
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I have been collecting pennies for 40 years. I have had more than 2 million in my collection at any given time & have or seen just about every error there is, but this is one of two that take the cake! This Canadian Penny is double struck with two dates! There is a complete upside down & backwards 1971 with a faint 1965 on an angle going up from the beginning of Canada. It appears as if this coin has been double struck with 2 dates as a result of a possible Die Deterioration that exposed a second date? Any thoughts? (PS I'm having difficulties adding pics but trying to get more up)  Edited by MOJO
03/06/2014 2:11 pm
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Valued Member
Canada
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I can only picture 3 possibilities myself -
1. They used the wrong hub and stamped it with the right hub over it.
2. Someone picked up an old test coin, or a penny and used it as a test coin?
3. Someone used an off center coin and hammered the other coin on top?
Curious coin, perhaps someone else would have a better guess, or knowledge.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
9865 Posts |
Not an error!
Home made!
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
Edited by DBM
03/06/2014 2:30 pm
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New Member
 Canada
33 Posts |
They all seem like valid suggestions Xanonite...DBM I am the biggest skeptic, but this is the first time I came to the community for thoughts, because it does appear to be a legitimate obv on obv clash/restamp as the identical obverse side is re stamped completely upside down and backwards...the 1965 threw me off...an auction company is looking at it now, but I'd like more opinions...but I put nothing past anyone lol I'm looking to confirm or rule out every possibility :)
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New Member
Canada
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I wish I could post more pics :(
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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 ..MOJO You came to the right place we just need some pics. If you can upload full reverse and obverse pics the experts here will be glad to help. |
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New Member
Canada
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Awesome! Just got to figure out how lol...& Thank You All!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Overstruck/doublestruck would not be upside down and backwards.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
Edited by DBM
03/06/2014 3:19 pm
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New Member
Canada
33 Posts |
I'm using the wrong terminology I think...I've seen it before though...
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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...an auction company is looking at it now Which auction company? "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I just love machine shop vice and hammer jobs. Alas the impossible error resurfaces! Tell us all the auction company please?!!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Tell us all the auction company please?!! Hope he doesn't say ebay....  |
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New Member
Canada
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Thanks for the input. Not ebay (too funny haha), but I'll post the findings. Whether man made or machine made. Have a great day! |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Gut feeling in the first place says to be cynical.
This is always the best start point. The buyer protects himself by so doing. The other way is to buy it dirt cheap, on spec., then go through the process indicated below:
The good news comes if it does, by having two or more independent expert third party opinions corroborating each other.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Indeed sounds like a man made coin.
I have a 1940 over a 1947. The coin was placed reverse to reverse. The give away is the flattend obverse on the other side.
I paid 1 dollar for it just for a laugh.
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Posted 03/06/2014 2:29 pm
