Just Found-Close Centered Double Strike

Lincolns head strike on the reverse seems to be incised which means it was struck against a positive, not a neg. Does not that mean either a die clash of worst case a garage job.
Jim

I know that it's authentic because my dad purchased this roll from the bank in 1984. The roll was shotgun, and took some time to unravel. I know it may look incised in the picture, but it is not.

Can someone post a pic of a double strike? Because this looks exactly like the double strike in my book.

But such is not the case. I'm not certain why you continue rebutting what I know as true. The coin is an authentic mint error, and it can easily be determined that the coin has never been mishandled.

I examined it under a microscope and took two of the pictures under this magnification. I may be wrong about it being a CENTERED Double Strike, but the coin isn't damaged in the least nor ever circulated.

Oh, one other thing, on the obverse you can tell the memorial design appears to run behind Lincoln's bust, and this proves it was not faked. A hammer or vice would not create this affect.

I can't imagine that this coin is faked. The column under Lincoln's beard would be impossible any other way.

I agree with Ziggy. If the coin was made from a pressing from another coin, the letters/head would be facing the opposite direction. A mirror image. But this coin is real and a very nice coin. Clashes happen a lot and are removed, but some coins after a clash happens get undetected. This is one of the strongest "Jail house Cents" I've seen. So very nice find. In fact re looking at your images, there was a doubled clash that happened or the first one wasn't totally removed.

Here is what a vise squeezed Cent with another Cent will look like.
https://www.coincommunity.com/forum...zed_Cent.jpg

This one sold on ebay and I asked if I could use his image of a faked double struck Cent and it was disfigured with another coin. He didn't respond. I guess he knew he had been caught. The buyer got a dud.


On the squeezed Cent notice how the details come through the bust. On a die clash this doesn't happen. Why? During a die clash only the fields touch with the mark of the edges of the bust/memorial and sometimes letters show. The deeper details are lower into the die and wouldn't be affected. Just the fields. The devices do suffer from the cleaning. In later die states the edges of the devices loose sharpness. Making the strike not quite as clean when the die was new.