194x LWC - The Case Of The Shrunken Wheatie

@ Yokozuna did you ever get that large cent to fit into your pocket watch? (read in an old post)

It wouldn't have a full, strong rim all of the way around the coin if it were a wrong planchet error, unless the planchets were both exactly the same diameter.

The wrong planchet would have had to been the same size or smaller than the Lincoln Wheat cent to have been struck by those dies. The rims are formed by the metal moving into the area provided for them on the die, they are not a part of the planchet.

That's why most wrong planchet errors show no rims and can be slightly out-of-round on at least part of the resulting strike. Rims in this location on a LWC are impossible, so they must have come from some type of "Spooning" action done to the coin after it was struck.




LOL! Wow, yes I did! It really looks great, but now the watch has stopped working. The coin even fits so well into the lid of the case that I can't remove it now.

I still have it around here somewhere in hopes of finding a similar watch, but the quality of this one is just too poor to even try to have it repaired.

I guess I could list the large cent as a rare error on Etsy, but I wouldn't even know how many thousands of dollars my modification added to the value.