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by the way it weighs..4.31 grams
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Can you give us the diameter?
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I think someone took a blank disk of some sort and hammered a 20 cent piece into it, thus the reverse effect.
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no FEC for that year, the only coin for that year with stars and a date like that was the Morgan and the Twenty Cent Piece. The diameter is same as a Lincoln Cent. |
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Im thinking a clash of some sort.
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actually its bigger then a LC..maybe by a mm or two. how do I get the diameter?
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I think someone took a blank disk of some sort and hammered a 20 cent piece into it, thus the reverse effect, this stated by KenKat. I think it highly unlikely someone took a coin that only 600 were made, and take a hammer to it. the 1878 Twenty Cent Piece is very valuable. |
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and we can rule out damaged Flying Eagle cent. it being 19.mm...and the LC being 19.5, this coin is larger then a LC. |
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What you have is an extremely damaged Flying Eagle cent (date unknown) that was hammered together with a 1878 dollar, which is why there are stars and the stars/ numbers are incuse and mirrored. The coin was flattened down which is why the diameter is larger than a normal Flying Eagle cent. Edit: It also couldn't be a clashed die because the devices on die clashes are raised, not incuse like they are on your coin.  Edited by CherryPicker1
08/21/2020 5:55 pm
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Not smashed against a dollar, Seated quarter. Star orientation is wrong for a dollar, and there are impressed stars on both edges of the coin. A cent placed so as to pick up that much of the date would show the stars right next to the date, wouldn't touch the stars were we do see them (wouldn't reach) and definitely wouldn't show them on both edges. (Cent just isn't that wide. But is WILL reach the stars on both sides of the quarter.) |
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Quote: I think someone took a blank disk of some sort and hammered a 20 cent piece into it, thus the reverse effect, this stated by KenKat. I think it highly unlikely someone took a coin that only 600 were made, and take a hammer to it. the 1878 Twenty Cent Piece is very valuable. Yeah, you are probably right about that. Do you have any pictures that show the entire obverse and reverse of the coin? Hard to get the full picture with just partial zoomed in shots. |
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@conder101 thanks for correcting me, I'm not extremely familiar with all the designs of the earlier US coins. |
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