1950 Wheatie Error?

well, that's interesting. Thanks very much. I'm going to keep it just because it's the only one from that year that I have.

I knew a guy that before he passed away many years ago, didn't know that Encased Cents were collectible. He popped about 50 cents out of their encasements. Most looked like the one above. I still have a few of them around here someplace.

Since some of the cents, (one or two out of the 50 ) didn't look distorted too much, I would have to guess that it depends on the way the coin and the encasement were joined. In any case having seen those cents immediately after they were removed from encasements, I know that I can personally account for the way the coin looks.

It may also have to do with the degree of wear as some people did use to carry Encased Cents around as "lucky pieces" . That's just a guess as I didn't connect wear to the condition of the coins that I saw as I didn't see which coins came out of which encasements.

The coin shown above to a high degree of certainty did spend some time as an Encased Cent.

Thanks,
Bill