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Anybody want to attempt to explain this Lincoln?

Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
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Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.

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  • sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭
    ? acid treated ? removed the copper plating revealing zinc ?
  • ccrccr Posts: 2,446
    My theory, which is usually wrong lately on these things, is that it got stuck in the die. It looks thin and the top part and bottom part got separated in the die when pulled apart.
  • smprfismprfi Posts: 874 ✭
    Looks like someone started to cut it in half.Bent it up to get a better grip,then finished the job.
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  • coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
    Looks like a mutilated coin to me.
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  • NumisEdNumisEd Posts: 1,336 ✭
    Maybe it was in the same car wreck as the infamous 1913 V-nickel?
  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    Construction site accident? hehe
    I bet its almost paper thin by the looks of the rims and the obverse image showing on the reverse.

    Was it stuck in a wheel of a forklift and the forklift was spinning its tires?
  • MonstavetMonstavet Posts: 1,235 ✭✭
    I'm with Semprfi on this one....someone somehow attempted to "shave" off just the obverse...which is why you can see it in mirror image on the back side...it is such a thin slice you can actually see the impression from the obverse. Dunno what was used to do it, though.
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  • DracoDraco Posts: 512 ✭
    If it were older, I'd say that it looks like it lost a gum ball machine fight.image
  • relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

    It's the new release of the half cent.

    It's looks like a coin expirement gone horribly wrong
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  • achteyachtey Posts: 304 ✭✭✭
    looks like someone got alittle hungry, lol
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  • asnookerasnooker Posts: 246
    Give him a break .... Dog I think it's a fantastic mint error and is probably worth a cool milllion. image
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  • danglendanglen Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭
    It is definitely NOT a mint error. I think someone took a perfectly good 1997 cent, then tried to create a brockage error by hammering the obverse of another cent onto the reverse of this one. When you do that, you will always have distortion on the obverse of the original coin. This one is not very hard to figure out. image

    PS Not discounting the possibility that someone threw it in acid as well to really mess it up. image
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  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    Heehe some of you have me rof image
    Bout 3 of you are correct.
    it got stuck in (on) the die.
    mutilated.
    it's a fantastic mint error.

    It was die cap that struck so many coins it was pounded paper thin, the rev copper plating wore away and the sides turned up like a bottle cap then wore away.

    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • PushkinPushkin Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭

    You sly old dog! image

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