BETTER PICS OF THE 1943 CLASHED DIES STEELIE

TWODOGS

I think I may have found this coin on Coneca's site. The one listed says MS-65...Pop 2. Mine's in an ICG-67 holder...if this IS that same coin, it's the third 65.

Please note the line from the "N" in CENT from the chin to the bowtie on the obverse. There's also a mark at the back of the neck from the "C.".

Smitty79

That's a cool coin, TD. I like it.

Shamika

I've never seen a clashed steel cent.

TWODOGS

<< <i>That's a cool coin, TD. I like it. >>

Thanks Smitty. Shamika, this is the first I've ever seen also. That's why I thought it was so cool. It really is a good strike for a steelie.

wam98

TWODOGS, I found a Memorial Lincoln Cent with clashed dies going through change once. On the obverse there were three columns of the Lincoln Memorial in front of Lincoln's face and two partial columns behind him above Liberty. Anyway on the reverse it had lumps and lines like yours only different because of it being a Memorial cent. I find this interesting. How does a die clash ?

kranky

Cool coin!

wam98, a die clash occurs when the dies come together without a blank planchet between them to receive the strike. Sometimes the force will cause the dies to transfer parts of the image to the opposing die. If that happens, the marks will show up on subsequent coins made from those dies.

jonesy

Copper yes, Steel no. Until now!! Great pics TWODOGS!!!

Smitty79

This thread got me curious so I took a closer look at my steel cents and found out I've got a die clashed '43 cent too. Although it's raw and not as strong as Twodogs' cent. I bought it from our very own Holey of Holeys, Lordmarcovan.

Murphy

Nice clashed steely there TwoDogs. I have a 1984 that I found while searching through cents and it has 4 columns in back and 3 in front of lincoln, plus an outline of Lincoln on the reverse side. I read a book several years ago that described them as "jailhouse Lincoln's". I added a back page to my Dansco penny book for this and other cents that I have found, like two varieties of Wide AM's, a 100% non-copper cent, 1970-S/S large date, 1981-S Type 2 proof cent, a nice damaged lamination cent and 2 Vegas cents. Don't know about anyone else, but I'm always finding weird things and a few nice varieties that I could add onto an extra Dansco page. I'm so glad that we can buy extra blank pages!