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I have a circulated Mercury dime that has been cross struck with a Lincoln Penny on both sides at roughly a 90^ angle. Sorry for the lousy pix but it was the best I could come up with. Any information as to history and value would be appreciated. Thank you all in advance.   |
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Rest in Peace
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 Without a good pic to look at I can only guess that someone placed that dime between Two Cents and stuck them all into a vise to make the impression. I cannot imagine how such an error could have occurred at the mint. Are the images of the cent mirror images of a normal cent? That would confirm that it was intentionally damaged after it left the mint. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Much larger and sharper pics, please! to the CCF! |
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Buddy, They are NOT mirror images. Both the date on the face and NE CENT on the back side are plainly visible. The O is not. Pennies were steel at the time so a dime getting mixed in would not get noticed. HOW it got mixed in would be anyone's guess.
Coinfrog and Moxking, My camera doesn't take great pix to begin with and the website made me take a lot of pixels out just to post what I have here (and that took the better part of two hours). If anyone would care to try to mess with my original photos to crop, enhance and repost here, I'd welcome the help.
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Pillar of the Community
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to CCF!! You need much better pics, larger in size and more in focus. Second, the U.S. mint never made pennies. They made cents. Thirdly, cents in 1943 were zinc plated steel, not just steel. This happens once in awhile at the mint. Planchets of different denoms sneak in, but thats not to say your coin is one. It looks like damage to me. But until we get better pictures. We cannot tell anythhing |
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Definitely need better pics. What little I can see, I would expect the head on the obverse to be more obliterated if an already struck dime was then struck by cent dies, especially with the pressure needed to strike the steel cents. Looks interesting.
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Dustin6, thank you for getting me on the right path in my coin vocabulary.
I knew I needed better pix as I was taking them. The question is how? All I have is the camera on my android. Much of the detail I did have got taken away with the sites picture editor. Until I get beyond that, I'm still at square one.
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Rest in Peace
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What happened when you used the image optimizer? It shouldn't shrink the photo.
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United States
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It actually got smaller. I played with the contrast to get as much detail as I could but the overall size (the second pic in particular) got smaller vs. the original image.
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to CCF. So you have a Merc struck on a cent planchet? How does a cent planchet fit into the collar of a dime? John1  |
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Playing with the optimizer.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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The pictures are even smaller than before. This error would be impossible, a steel planchet could not fit into the Mercury dime collar. It would just not be possible |
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Wife has an Android and it takes beautiful pics. Maybe you have a really old one.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Give the photos another shot, vettracer. You might just have something.
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