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This went at auction on ebay and got it for just under thirty bucks. Would cost that much just to grade it! It's the thin side of a split planchet, coming in at just 0.78g and not really thick enough to see much of anything of an obverse. Possibly the closest thing I'll ever have to a tails/tails coins that came out of the mint that way. No Date Lincoln Memorial cent mint error - split after strike 0.78g ANACS MS-62 BRN    |
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Pillar of the Community
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What an awesome error! Pretty sweet price too. Nice snag!
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Bedrock of the Community
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Very nice Split Planchet tropicalbats! Got it for a great price too! Very nice buy!
Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
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That is a monster of a pick. First one that I have seen with much of a trace of the obverse.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That is a beauty and incredible for under $30! That's a steal. Incredible purchase!
-CH27
Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
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Bedrock of the Community
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This truly is a rare beauty! VERY nice pickup!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Excellent buy.
Any idea why there seems to be a second memorial building on the "muted" side? (One seems to be incuse and the other raised & rotated CCW about 10 degrees)
I wonder if the obverse became a die cap and struck the planchet again?
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Edited by Petespockets55
04/10/2020 07:54 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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You have some wonderful things.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks for the great comments! And Pockets really got me thinking. I saw there was a bit of rotation on the obverse but couldn't think of anything that would cause it so didn't mention it. But that die cap idea actually is making some sense. Here is another image of the obverse, and although it is hard to light it through the slab like I would like to, it does seem to show a pretty distinct second image suggesting a second strike. The reverse remains normal, so if anything a die cap would have had to have rotated slightly on the hammer die to create the second image. Thoughts and comments always appreciated.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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You definitely stole this one, awesome buy!
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Pillar of the Community
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Great coin! ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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Hopefully, others will chime in and maybe even Mike D. will pop in for a look-see because I'm really curious now.
Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups.
We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow.
Edited by Petespockets55
04/10/2020 8:21 pm
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ANACS is almost certainly wrong. This is probably not a split-after-strike planchet. This instead is started out as a thin planchet (probably split, but possibly rolled-thin) that was fed into the striking chamber beneath a normal planchet. The two were struck together twice, with the upper coin rotating slightly between strikes. That's why you've got two incuse ghost images of the Memorial. So this is a double-struck in-collar uniface strike.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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Pillar of the Community
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It sounds like you may have bought a better coin than you thought! Again, big congrats!
-CH27
Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
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Pillar of the Community
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Wow, that's an even better error than attributed. Well, nice double struck in collar uniface strike!
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So help me understand if you can (I'm a little slow). Two blanks went into the chamber the thin one shown was on the bottom. the bottom die was the memorial image. This got struck twice in the chamber and the top blank moved between strikes. If this is correct then why would there be no trace of the double strike on the memorial side of the thin coin? An the top coin would show a double very faint strike of the memorial side? And I would assume the top coin, a very strong obverse side since struck twice? Thanks! Trying to learn!!
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Posted 04/09/2020 11:21 pm
