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That is some vice job!

IkesTIkesT Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭✭✭

It looks like someone took a nickel and squeezed a Lincoln cent reverse into both sides of it - it does NOT look like a genuine mint error, IMO.

That being said, they really managed to squeeze a LOT of the Lincoln Memorial reverse detail into the nickel. How exactly did they accomplish this? Did they heat up the nickel in a furnace to soften it, first?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Uncirculated-ERROR-NICKEL-VERRY-RARE/383780141430?hash=item595b143976:g:epEAAOSwMrxfjFus


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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Vice job for sure.

    PMD

  • OldhoopsterOldhoopster Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 25, 2020 10:08AM

    @IkesT said:

    ....... That being said, they really managed to squeeze a LOT of the Lincoln Memorial reverse detail into the nickel. How exactly did they accomplish this? Did they heat up the nickel in a furnace to soften it, first?

    Lots of pressure. Look at the distortion of the ONE CENT on the nickel obverse

    Look at some of the videos on the YouTube Hydraulic Press channel
    https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCcMDMoNu66_1Hwi5-MeiQgw

    Here are some with coins
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s9A2Dzv8H1g

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4DpP1v3Jx-0

    Member of the ANA since 1982
  • IkesTIkesT Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Oldhoopster said:

    @IkesT said:

    ....... That being said, they really managed to squeeze a LOT of the Lincoln Memorial reverse detail into the nickel. How exactly did they accomplish this? Did they heat up the nickel in a furnace to soften it, first?

    Lots of pressure. Look at the distortion of the ONE CENT on the nickel obverse

    Makes perfect sense. I kept thinking, "how can someone do this just by hand cranking a vise?".

    As you point out, they probably didn't - they used a bit more power than that. ;)

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,085 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Either a vice or a hammer was used to create this so-called error.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @IkesT said:

    @Oldhoopster said:

    @IkesT said:

    ....... That being said, they really managed to squeeze a LOT of the Lincoln Memorial reverse detail into the nickel. How exactly did they accomplish this? Did they heat up the nickel in a furnace to soften it, first?

    Lots of pressure. Look at the distortion of the ONE CENT on the nickel obverse

    Makes perfect sense. I kept thinking, "how can someone do this just by hand cranking a vise?".

    As you point out, they probably didn't - they used a bit more power than that. ;)

    Three coins and a sledgehammer on an anvil will do the trick.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No doubt PMD.... Vise/hammer, whatever...Cheers, RickO

  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 8,421 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 26, 2020 2:12AM

    Here is my "vice" job. I accidently produced it while trying to do something else (no, I do not intend to ever offer it for sale).

    1971-D Kennedy Half Dollar, with a positive impression of a 1971-S Eisenhower Dollar on the obverse (note almost perfect "S" mint mark between the "9" and "7"):

    This shows the extent of what could be done with a "vice" job. So be wary of secondary images that are fuzzy or mushy when looking at "error" coins.

    .

  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,543 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What is the blue or silver material outlining the image on the reverse in the above photo ?
    If I may ask ?

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    :o

  • abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Jimnight said:
    :o

    :#

  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Unless a law was violated, it's actually just a vise job...

  • IkesTIkesT Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CoinJunkie said:
    Unless a law was violated, it's actually just a vise job...

    "Vise" and "vice" are actually both correct, in this case. ;)

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