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Some years ago, I had found a nice example of a 2015 P Lincoln Cent spiked head and rescued it from circulation. The crack runs virtually in a straight line from above the ear to just nipping the lead arm of the W to the rim. I did not recognize an exact match to any of the 55 SKH varieties listed on the COC site. Last month, searching a coin roll, I found a second, more circulated coin with exact same crack. The Phila mint made almost 4.7 billion cents in 2015, what are the odds that 2 coins from the same damaged die would find their way to the same person years apart? This fact amazes me.     |
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Pillar of the Community
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 Nice Spike Head die crack. |
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what are the odds that 2 coins from the same damaged die would find their way to the same person years apart? Cool pair of matching die cracks. That's an interesting question. The mint says the average cent die produces a million coins, so in 2015 they used roughly 4,700 dies. So if the odds are 1 in 5000, if you searched 10000 2015 coins it seems reasonable that you'd find two. If you searched fewer coins from mixed years, the odds are pretty remote. |
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Pillar of the Community
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easy to see spike, nice coin
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 very cool spike. great find. |
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Nice find. I got a similar one, 2021. Never though about finding another from the same die. That's why I photograph all my keepers. You never know.
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@old, that is quite nice to have two with virtually identical die cracks. I would definitely keep them together as a pair.
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Nice examples!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Very cool very pronounced spike head!  |
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Thank you all for your replies and encouragement.
KBB, I probably search only 3 to 4 thousand cents in a full year, over all the 100 + production years of Lincolns (there are usually at least one Canadian in there). So the odds are indeed pretty slim.
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From I think 2010 or 2011, the mint use horizontal presses. Are faster and deteriorations are less. the way it is work: The reverse is head up and Observe head down. Down we have around 1.5 to 2 tone more forces which was observed could crack the plating and also the planchet. This I think it is the reason we can find same thing on different years. Just Physic's.
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Pillar of the Community
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Great set of eyes for finding the pair.
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Spence, I am definitely keeping them together. Once I found the first example years ago, I had only been closely checking the 2015 coins, but I realize from the COC lists that spikes can happen any production year.
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Silviosi, is the Reverse up positioning also used in Jefferson nickel stamping? They have a chipping problem on the reverse at the edge walls of the Monument building. I have a whole tube of them with chips. |
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Posted 07/07/2022 3:39 pm
