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1935 Oddball To Much To List.

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 Posted 08/07/2008  01:04 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Placasador to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Found this little freak in some change. It looks like it has a ghost of Lincoln on the reverse, ghost mint mark,odd bump behind Lincolns head, and Machine Doubling.
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 Posted 08/07/2008  4:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The ghost image on the reverse is the after math of several clashing then cleaning to remove the clash mark. After several cleaning the die's fields get lower and lower till they create the ghost image on the reverse. There is Machine Doubling the EPU and also very heavy die wear on the tops of the letters of the EPU.
The mark on the 5 is a coin wrapper slice when the coin was wrapped along the way through its many years of circulation. Nothing real exciting about this coin, always worth melt for the copper.
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 Posted 08/08/2008  03:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Parklane64 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
But interesting enough to keep. I've got some keepers that other people would look at and say, "Big deal."

We probably all have a coin or two or ten like that.
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 Posted 08/08/2008  09:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coppercoins to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I see no particular evidence of any die clash on this coin. The 'ghost images' are from simple die wear and transferrence of the design through heavy die use. Both the obverse and reverse dies on this coin were very late die state.

Furthermore, with copper at its all time high, the value of copper in a Lincoln Cent could not exceed the cost of face value of the cent plus the cost of smelting the coins and purifying the copper from the zinc and tin in the alloy. Basically there's no profit in the idea unless copper went up substantially from previous all time highs (around $4.05 per pound in May 08). Copper currently trades as a commodity at around $3.50 per pound...as a pure metal. Getting it to that point would cost you substantially.

So....the idea of keeping cents for their smelt value is at present:

1. Not cost worthy at all unless copper goes well above $5 per pound.
2. Not viable, since melting cents is currently illegal, and may always be.
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 Posted 08/10/2008  10:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mikediamond to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Coppercoins is right. The reverse shows progressive indirect design transfer -- a form of Die Deterioration. The swelling behind Lincoln's head is presumably also a manifestation of Die Deterioration. The last numeral of the date was damaged outside the Mint.
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