Interesting Jefferson

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  windwhispersintrees Posts: 605 ✭✭✭

  November 6, 2003 11:21PM

  Hey, that's neat.
  Looks a bit like one of those foil-covered chocolate coins that's been in the sun too long and become soft!

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  XpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭

  November 6, 2003 11:51PM

  Yes, that's very cool.

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  MadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭

  November 7, 2003 2:09AM

  I would give that a solid 8 on the coolness meter!

  It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!
  
  

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  airplanenut Posts: 22,804 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 7, 2003 2:19AM

  Really cool! Here's my brockage lincoln I got last week...
  
  
  
  

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  Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭

  November 7, 2003 4:09AM

  That is tremendous looking Jeremy. Wont find one of those in change.
  
  Equally tremendous is the Jeff. Wish I owed one of those type errors.
  
  Got brockage?
  

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  seanq Posts: 8,850 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 7, 2003 4:53AM

  It doesn't happen every day, but you can find these in your change - they are not oversized or out of round and they're the right weight, so they won't get trapped in the sorting equipment. Here is a nice first-strike reverse brockage cent up on eBay right now (not my coin). That one could easily fly under the radar with that title and no description.
  
  
  Sean Reynolds

  Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.
  
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  Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭

  November 8, 2003 4:23PM

  Interesting coin Jeremy. I haven't quite figured out how it was made. It appears to be a reverse brockage created by a partially capped die, but the die is capped by just the off-center portion of an off-center cent. The detail of the brockage shows that it was struck through an off-center cent but the distortion (enlargement) in image shows that the off-center portion has been struck into multiple coins resulting in the spreading of the image.

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