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1c 1898 - Mint Error "Be Or Not To Be"?

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 Posted 12/29/2015  10:57 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add robert_ to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Ciao to everybody,
I'd like your opinion about a coin that I think be a mint error, you'll tell me what your ideas. The fact is that I sent it to certify and I got certified simply as Bent. Possible?
As you see from the photographs there are traces of a previous strike especially on the reverse on letters O (of One) and C NT of (of CENT).
Could be a double strike on a bent coin or on a partial brockage? The sign on letter N is clearly in incuse, the ones on other letters look in relief but maybe are the same negative of a contact imprinting.
In the pictures you see I've also outlined the shapes that are at the origin of my idea.
Before to send the coin to another firm for another certification, I'd like to read your opinions.
Thanks a lot, ciao!
Roberto

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 Posted 12/29/2015  12:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add moxking to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
What you are seeing is most likely the vise clamp patterns impressed into this coin when it was put in a press and bent, for whatever reason.
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 Posted 12/29/2015  2:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add robert_ to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It could be, but if they are vise clamp patterns, they seem having exactly the same kind of shape of some designs of the coin.
On letter O the shape (in relief) looks like a point like the ones of ribbon or arrows, on the letter C you see some shape like the leaves of the oak wreath (in relief) , and on letter N something regular like some letter body (in incuse).
And the letters are not smashed as if you press them with an object under strong pressure, they are perfectly outlined with just the new shape in relief. Finally, there are no signs of any type on obverse.
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