1999 Lincoln Cent Error - How Do I Describe This?

Looks like broadstruck with a slight brockage.

those are the letters MERI of AMERICA in reverse.

How can the letters be a mirror image and also raised?

Is the broadstrike flat or is it dished at all? It appears that the area around IGWT curves upward but I just cannot tell from a 2D photo.

I think I have nailed your coin down now. It is obviously broadstruck but the other strike was the confusing part. After extensive consultation of The Official Price Guide to Mint Errors by Alan Herbert, I think the second error is a counter-brockage second strike.

"A coin which was struck normally and was struck a second time off-center with part of a struck brockage coin between the object coin and one of the dies, showing on the struck coin as a stronger than normal off-center strike of any size and in any location on one side of the coin, and as a matching off-center, shallow, irregularly rounded depression sloping up to the remainder of the coin with a slightly enlarged and distorted relief image of the intervening partial coin design."

You may also want to contact CONECA about attributing the error http://hermes.csd.net/~coneca/conte...butions.html

Excellent, thanks for the answers folks. I greatly appreciate your responses.

Anyone have any idea of value for insurance?

Thanks

Thanks for the response Metalman.

I've looked this coin over a lot and the lettering appears to be raised. Thing is, I don't see how it could be because the lettering is a complete mirror image od "MERI". Looks like another coin was pressed down and into it. Could that be post mint?

I'm going to take it to work for some heavy-duty analysis because that area is very difficult to see with only 10x (my highest loupe power). Pictures can also deceive.