Wicked cool error coin! Yes or No?

@PhillyJoe said:
I voted man made because I don’t see how that made it past the counter machinery for the rolls and bags.

I think they go by weight - for the bags (the mint does not roll coins).

@savitale it appears to be double struck but not a saddle strike. Two separate off center strikes its what it appears to be.

@savitale said:
Isn't there an error called struck through reeding? Is it possible that is what caused the tire-tread marks?

Cents don't have reeding.

@CaptHenway said:
If the threaded object impacted this piece after the strike(s), there would be furrows raised up alongside the cuts. Think of a freshly plowed field.

If the threaded objects was between the planchet and the obverse die during the strike, the obverse die would not have been able to get through to strike up the design next to the threaded object, such as the 20, BER, etc.

I agree. But it also doesn't seem like it could have been furrowed before the two saddle strikes without flattening the furrow. That makes its existence impossible, doesn't it?

@ironmanl63 said:

@jmlanzaf said:

@CaptHenway said:
If the threaded object impacted this piece after the strike(s), there would be furrows raised up alongside the cuts. Think of a freshly plowed field.

If the threaded objects was between the planchet and the obverse die during the strike, the obverse die would not have been able to get through to strike up the design next to the threaded object, such as the 20, BER, etc.

I agree. But it also doesn't seem like it could have been furrowed before the two saddle strikes without flattening the furrow. That makes its existence impossible, doesn't it?

He is saying the furrow was flattened during the strike. I think. My biggest problem is I do not know enough about the minting process to figure it out. It is hard to just imagine with out knowledge of the whole process. I am a show me kind of guy.

He's saying the threads are flattened, but what about the other side? It appears to still be rounded.

And let's ask another question: how would you strike a blank planchet through a bolt without there being any evidence of the reverse die? The reverse die would have to be the anvil against which the bolt was struck.

I don't know if @CaptHenway is right about it being a Chinese counterfeit. But I think it has to be a fake.

2005 ?

@thebigeng said:
Who took over for Fred at PCGS?

Jon Sullivan. Well qualified.

If there was an object in the coining chamber it might explain the saddle strike, it could not eject fully and was struck again after a partial ejection. The collar was jammed..