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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Guessing this is a soft die fake, but I honestly don't know. There are three images both front and back although the ones on the front are pretty soft. The lower bust (raised) can be seen by LIBERTY and what looks like some lettering in that area for the other one. The reverse is just a mess of raised letters (not a vise job) and I tried to make three images with each of the three "strikes" correctly oriented in one of them. Weight is 3.15g Will be interested to see what this turns out to be. 1942-D Lincoln Wheat cent - triple design made how?       |
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New Member
United States
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That's a nice find. Congrats
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Cool coin! I think the only thing that would make me think soft die is that the devices appear to affect the primary strike. But I truly think it's the real deal.
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Moderator
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Interesting.Maybe Mike would like to comment on it. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Neat.
The design (e) below the M (AMERICA) doesn't appear to be US. A soft die vise job with a pair of foreign coins that had an incuse design?
(I have a 1946p with strong raised elements on the reverse also. Not as confusing or with overlapping elements like this one though. I can post an image for comparison if you like.)
Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups.
We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow.
Edited by Petespockets55
01/08/2020 06:57 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Post away Pete! More stuff to look at and compare to is better. Plus you have some neat coins and another excuse to see one.
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Pillar of the Community
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I'll wait to comment. Probably would be much easier to determine in hand.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Over my pay grade.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Here's a guess. Triple struck first two through another planchet. One on top of another. This would leave the obverse blank? Maybe?
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01/08/2020 09:24 am
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Valued Member
United States
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What a magnificent find tropicalbats.... congratulations!  You deserve that coin to be authentic. I hope for the best for you... be waiting for Mike's comments...  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well, looks like there is hope as not one has totally come out and said it's a "nope". It'll get slabbed if authentic and into my counterfeit collection if not, so a neat keeper either way.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I bet it's not a genuine error coin. Probably one that's been faked.
Errers and Varietys.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I agree. Altered with a soft die. Note the rims how they are affected near all the altered areas. On the reverse, note the first 'S' on States? While it appears that the some of that device is raised, note the area outside of the outline of the added device how the devices are flattened?  Edited by coop
01/08/2020 12:17 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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I'm going to go with a soft die alteration as well.
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Pillar of the Community
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Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups.
We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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On your 1942, is that a raised wheat stem between the O(ONE) and URI(URIBUS)? Yours also has very little rim damage. Only a minor amount by the base of the left wheat. It seems like a lot of work to go through making soft dies for a 1 cent coin. It just seems the rim damage is too minor for all that is going on with this one to just be PSD or soft dies. Hope you get it figured out conclusively if that's even possible. Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups.
We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow.
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