1955 Lincoln Wheat Cent. Another What Is This?

-makecents-, I received the Clashed Dime, thanks! I have not shot it yet but will do so hopefully next week when I get back from a road trip. I'm also planning on shooting lawest's 57 BIE again with a different technique, and may use that for your Dime as well...Ray

Cool! Enjoy your road trip and be careful!


Nice! I look forward to it, always enjoy your work.


Something just came to me about this. I will admit, I have not ran across this often but it does happen. Think about a rolled thick planchet, it does not happen often but it happens. I wonder if dies can occasionally be abnormal, not quite true, maybe thicker than normal in the center? Now we are bringing two things into play at the same time though, an abnormal die and a clash happening all at once, the odds are probably up there but then you have to think about the crazy numbers of working dies and coins being minted, maybe not that out of the question....

I've received the 2017 Dime Clash, shot obverse and reverse, and did an overlay. The overlay is way too big to share here, so I will just share the high point clash area animation. I had to rotate the reverse about 5 deg or so but the obverse and reverse clash patterns did line up on both sides.

The strange part is still that the clash pattern is inconsistent, and shows strongest in the deepest recesses of the obverse die. Only way I can see this happening is if the reverse die broke into pieces, leaving only the deepest central part intact. But that would result in the die being unusable for further striking, and the coin could not exist.

Anyway, I will do some more work on this later, just want to share this animation for folks to ponder.