Let's play "explain the error"

Aegis3

Here is an error coin. Explain in as much detail how you thought it was made. Please note that I am posting this in part because while I can describe the error and have no doubt as to its authenticity, it's just not quite clear to me just exactly how it came to be. But I like strike thrus and brockages, especially as multiple errors.

ProofCents

Strange wish i could

dsessom

Please bear in mind that I have almost no knowledge of errors. I would guess that this one was made when a planchet inserted incorrectly into the die press before the obverse die was mounted.

Jinx86

Mint employee held coin bewteen dies to make errors?
Ive seen two Lincolns struck thru eachother. They were slabbed as a set and sold for big $.

But hey there are some really odd mint errors what could only be caused by the allignment of the moons of Jupitor.

JRocco

This is a real WAG Ed as I am shooting from the hip...

Coin number one ( not this coin ) failed to eject after striking and thus prevented coin
number two ( this coin ) from properly seating pre-strike this resulting in the above very interesting error.

seanq

Well at first glance it looks simple enough, a coin was struck and remained between the dies, your coin was fed partially over the struck coin and received a brockage on the obverse. However, if that were the case, I would expect the brockage to be the reverse design - your coin having been fed between the reverse die and the face of the struck coin which had just struck that die. That's not what you have, though, as you can clearly see the word "TRUST" incuse on the rim.

What that means is that the first coin flipped over between strikes, and the planchet that became your coin wound up between the reverse die and the obverse of the coin which those dies had just struck. So your coin is a uniface reverse strike with an obverse brockage, and the mate to your coin will be a flip-over double strike in collar with an indent on the second strike.


Sean Reynolds

Aegis3

Sean, you're the closest so far, but I don't think it was a coin this coin was struck thru, as it was thin enough for the obverse design to bleed through the brockage obverse design. I'd then say an die cap, but the orientation would be quite unlikely, so I don't like that either. It is quite the puzzler!

Aegis3

pre-hike ttt

errormaven

Sean's explanation is correct (although there's no "uniface strike" involved). Your cent was struck off-center, with a flipped over cent lying on top of it. The latter left a brockage of the obverse design on the obverse face.

Aegis3

Bringing this up top after I forgot about it.

Sean and Mike, what did make me curious about this coin (and made me skeptical that it was a normal thickness coin that caused the strike thru is that the rear of Lincoln's bust is seen thru the brockaged head. And if the struck thru object is thinner than a normal coin, would this need more explanation as to the orientation of the struck thru object with respect to this coin?

WoodenJefferson

The anvil die (reverse) struck normal. This reverse struck area is raised, correct. The hammer die had a flipped over previously struck planchet between the die and the off center fed planchet that imparted the negative relief into the obverse. This obverse area is struck lower (shelved) than the planchet, correct? Maybe, perhaps...sort of.