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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SeanQ nailed it, as usual, in the first reply above.
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@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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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.
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.
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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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What a glorious mess, if real.
Vice job.
Hoard the keys.
If it was a vice job wouldn't the mirror image result?
bob
Yes but the faint incuse image makes me think that, We will need to see the rev to be pos..
Hoard the keys.
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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SeanQ nailed it, as usual, in the first reply above.
I owned one of these years ago that was similar. Very cool error.
indeed one does learn a few things around here if you hang around long enough
Thanks, Fred.
I didn't know that.
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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.
Now that would be an amazing find in pocket change.... Cheers, RickO
@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.
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