That is some vice job!
IkesT
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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?
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Vice job for sure.
PMD
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
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.
Either a vice or a hammer was used to create this so-called error.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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Three coins and a sledgehammer on an anvil will do the trick.
No doubt PMD.... Vise/hammer, whatever...Cheers, RickO
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.
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What is the blue or silver material outlining the image on the reverse in the above photo ?
If I may ask ?
Unless a law was violated, it's actually just a vise job...
"Vise" and "vice" are actually both correct, in this case.