Intersting Large Cent

fishteeth

Sorry for the awful pics, taken very quickly on the floor of the local show today.

This large cent was so interesting I had to take a pic. The coin is in a PCGS VG holder.
One of the local dealers picked this coin up recently.
Does anyone have any idea on the raritiy and value of a coin like this

Aegis3

Looks like a corrected error. The first strike was an off-center brockage (of the obverse on the reverse), and the second strike (technically a flipover) was done as a cheap way to get rid of the error.

I take it the coin also shows a rotated reverse?

savoyspecial

wow! what was on the label? flipover doublestrike? very neat!

GoldenEyeNumismatics

Looks to me that it's a flip over double strike, with the first strike off-center.

coinkid855

Oops!


Awesome error!



-Paul

Broadstruck

Does anyone have any idea on the raritiy and value of a coin like this

Easily $2500-3500 retail even in this low circ condition... the reverse is neat-o!

TheRegulator

I'm with Broadstruck- easily a four-figure coin.

Large Cent errors like this go for a lot of money. Sweet coin- thanks for sharing!

NumisOxide

Very cool!

sumdunce

Nice coin.

fishteeth

The PCGS Holder described it as

Double struck 2nd strike 50% off Center + Brokage

Quarternut

I think it is uber !!

QN

PerryHall

Strange it would circulate for so long before someone pulled it from circulation. I guess people really didn't care about coins during the pre Civil War era.

DorkGirl