Hello All:
Been busy these past weeks....
Had a really nice small weekend style vacation in Pennsylvannia and even went on the tour of the Philadelphia mint and even got some really good info from the mint itself...
I also developed some computer problems from putting hard loads on the seldomly used equipment and such and lost my passwords and all my files n pictures because my harddrives both died aswell as the memory chip....
The power company is upgrading the electric service in the ares due to development and just cuts the power off for hours at times without warning too....So far I have a huge list for all types of electronics I had to replace since they started this upgrade because the superviser said to just keep the receipts and put in a claim......LOL
My vacation is nearing its end soon and I was reviewing all the strange looking Pennies,Nickels,Reagan Dollars and Dimes Ive found along the way searching through over 10,000 pennies..................
I even got a pretty foolproof way to show the coins detail alot better than the optical reader program on my Galaxy4....LOL....I finally realized that you can actually scan coins and broke out my crappy Epson410.......
So far Ive looked through over 10,000 brand new 2016 pennies and have found some very odd looking brand new pennies....
Right now I want to share this one....according to what Ive been told by mint employees is that the US Mint went to great lengths to ensure some types of errors are never ever struck and if they miraculously are;- dont make it to the public anymore and how alot of the ones that were considered errors in the copper cent days dont really exist with the Zincolns...
While I was on my small weekend vacation I was scalping brand new rolls of dimes nickels and pennies off of the local shops close to the mint and scored quite a hefty load of uncirculated rolled up pocket change that made me smile when I finally checked them yesterday........
So Under a loupe you can see the second ear above the original ear....behind the second ear you see the outside of a third ear then below that a piece of a fourth ear...
There appears to be damage coming across his eye in a crazy looking shape thats actually a slightly raised line and not a scratch....
If you look thats a second beard shape thats clocked 45 degrees out with a second bust outline and a second bowtie outline also if you look at the original bustline you can see looking towards the date you can see shadows of atleast 3-4 more ghost busts.....
Theres a few ghost 6's and a couple extra 1's aswell....
I think this penny was pressed multiple times and was rotated while it was being pressed...
What would be a ballpark figure for such an anomolly thats not supposed to exist?
Oh and heres another one that fits in a slightly different category of mystery except its got some similarities like a few extra ghost busts and some date quardrupling....
Posted 08/29/2016 3:13 pm
