BEAUTIFUL TRIPLE STRUCK LINCOLN

CHESSNUTDOG

IM NOT A BIG ERROR FAN BUT THIS LOOKS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS....ANY IDEAS HOW MUCH IT WILL PROBABLY GO FOR?
Link to Heritage Auction

ss350camaro

Estimate: US $1.00 - US $1,000,000.00






pretty cool !

FredWeinberg

I sold two very similar pieces, in PCGS holders, in the
past few months, for $450 and $475 each......

This should bring about the same, with the 15% buyers fee;


Fred

DickyBetz

That coin is amazing. I want one like it.

jonathanb

1964 is pretty much the date for spectacular multistrikes, on both cents and nickels.

NumisOxide

Cool error.

errormaven

It's actually a saddle strike on a broadstruck cent. The second and third strikes were received simultaneously instead of sequentially.

shylock

errormaven - Please explain, in layman's terms, a saddle strike to us.

Double strike -
The partial second strike obliterates the original image beneath it, but the rest of the first strike is undistorted, except in the immediate vicinity of the second strike. A saddle strike is generally not a true double strike, but usually the result of having a planchet fall partially between two pairs of dies on a multi-die press. Saddle strikes have two partial images, and an expanse of unstruck planchet between the struck areas, resembling Mickey Mouse's head with the partial coin images representing his ears.

Examples of coins struck three, four or more times are known.

This explanation, found on the web, doesn't make it clear to me.

errormaven

A saddle strike is a tandem strike that occurs in a dual or quad press. Two die pairs lie right next to each other such that a coin or planchet can straddle the gap between them. Both die pairs strike the coin or planchet simultaneously. It's called a saddle strike because the unstruck gap between the two off-center strikes often buckles, and sometimes assumes the shape of a saddle.

shylock

errormaven - thanks.

The modern dual press concept is foreign to 19'th century collectors like myself. Now I get it and it's no wonder errors are
more exotic these days than during the single press era. The reverse strikes of this coin really do look like saddles.