Need some help from the Error Specialist

Windycity · June 25, 2016 5:02AM

I have a number of off-center Lincolns but I am at a bit of a loss with this one... clearly off-center but no reverse impression at all and the planchet is bent like a reclining chair. Hope the images help. How might this have happened and how would I describe it other than off-center?

valente151 · June 25, 2016 5:35AM

Not an expert but I'll take a stab. Struck through a rev die cap that was big enough to block the planchet from getting centered on the die.

MWallace · June 25, 2016 6:09AM

It was laying partially on top of another blank planchet when it was struck.

epcjimi1 · June 25, 2016 6:33AM

Originally posted by: Windycity

clearly off-center

Understatement of the year

but no reverse impression at all

I see Abe's chin, smeared hair on what appears to be the reverse pic

MedalCollector · June 25, 2016 7:27AM

An off-center uniface strike. Likely caused by being struck over a planchet, as already mentioned. Nothing special. Some zinc rot due to the zinc being exposed as the metal stretched outward during the strike.

I think that the planchet underneath your coin increased the striking pressure which caused your coin to bend towards the hammer die.

Need some help from the Error Specialist

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