What does a VEDS Lincoln Wheat Cent look like?
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I search a lot of BU Wheat Cent rolls, looking for varieties such as RPMs, Doubled Dies, BIEs (which are actually errors), etc. I occasionally run across interesting coins, and put them aside for later study. In a big group of 1956-D Cent rolls I looked through, I found a few examples of the earliest die state coins I've ever seen in the Wheat series. VEDS coins exhibit some interesting characteristics, including very fine scratches and gouges from the die making process which wear away quickly after the first few (or few hundred?) strikes, very flat fields, and lack of die flow lines. There are still flow lines present due to the metal flow in the planchet during striking, but that metal flow has yet to cause complementary die wear which is then imparted onto all subsequent strikes.
Here is an example of a VEDS 1956-D Cent from this group. I took this image using a high-end 2x cinematic printing lens, and then stitched together 6 images to form a single 86.5MP image of the coin. Viewing is best by going full-screen (upper right corner of the viewer) and then zooming-in to see all the details (upper left corner of the viewer).
Comments welcome, and enjoy this high resolution image of a very rare VEDS Cent. I'd love to see other examples of VEDS cents, as searching and studying these is a passion of mine!
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I bet your device would make for great viewing when watching popping pimples videos on youtube, on a serious note great image!
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Boy do I like these images using your techique. Nice find, I want to find one also. Is that a short die stress crack above "IN"? Thanks for sharing. Peace Roy
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I have never heard of the terms VEDS before. Is it "Very Early Die State?"
Great picture and interesting topic. Had not really considered this part of coin production. Thanks for the information and the picture. Cheers, RickO
Yes, Very Early Die State. I should have explained the acronym.
It looks like it. Very shallow, and probably was quickly obscured by flow line wear.
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Pretty cool.
Any idea what the "dashed line" from under the chin to above the 5 is caused by?
No idea. Kind of a pizza-cutter look to it. I have never seen that kind of feature before. The field is not polished on business strike dies, so what we're looking at may the surface of the die blank. It seems unlikely those scratches exist on the hub, so something must have chattered against the die surface either before or after hubbing.
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I'm not seeing a VEDS. Lincoln has a cracked skull, perhaps a polished die is all?
bob
It's not a cracked skull, but scratches on the coin itself. Cracks will be raised, while those marks are incuse.
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On Lincolns, I look for a thin and crisp T in TRUST on the obverse to indicate EDS. It seems that the wider and mushier it is, the rest of the details look later die state as well. EPU on the reverse needing to be thin and crisp as well.
