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I only have a picture of one side just saw a picture on the internet and was curious.

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  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,725 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It looks like it was struck through a shifted die cap. The cap fell off the obverse die, turned slightly, and when struck again it created a faint incuse image of the obverse. I would expect the reverse to look like a normal cent.

    Sean Reynolds

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  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,277 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What a glorious mess, if real.

  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Vice job.



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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,909 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If it was a vice job wouldn't the mirror image result?

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  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes but the faint incuse image makes me think that, We will need to see the rev to be pos..



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  • BruceSBruceS Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 21, 2018 8:28PM

    looks like it an error to me. But I am no expert by any means. Fred will stop by and clarify I'm sure., but a reverse shot would make it much easier.


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  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,916 ✭✭✭✭✭

    SeanQ nailed it, as usual, in the first reply above.

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  • cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 7,952 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @seanq said:
    It looks like it was struck through a shifted die cap. The cap fell off the obverse die, turned slightly, and when struck again it created a faint incuse image of the obverse. I would expect the reverse to look like a normal cent.

    Sean Reynolds

    I owned one of these years ago that was similar. Very cool error.

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,076 ✭✭✭✭✭

    indeed one does learn a few things around here if you hang around long enough ;)

  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks, Fred.
    I didn't know that.

    Frank

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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 22, 2018 12:09PM

    Soooo. Since I'm not an error guy, please explain the sequence.

    A planchet is struck normally on both sides. It is now a 1995 cent. At this time both dies and the collar are in contact with this newly struck coin and the dies are beginning to separate so the coin can be pushed out of the die chamber.

    Then what happened?

    For example, I cannot understand how the normal coin get struck in the first place to start this "minting error" with a formerly struck "cap" still attached to the obverse die.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Now that would be an amazing find in pocket change.... Cheers, RickO

  • MedalCollectorMedalCollector Posts: 2,013 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 23, 2018 6:48AM

    @Insider2 , Read this from error-ref.com

    No need for a reverse photo - that is legit. It seems to me that this error occurs most "frequently" with zinc cents. I recall seeing another with the 1995 date.

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,543 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @johnny9434 said:
    indeed one does learn a few things around here if you hang around long enough ;)

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