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Lincoln cent Brockage or Texas cent or ????
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At first I thought this was a brockage error because on the reverse the mirror image of a 1971d Lincoln cent can be seen.
Then I noticed it looks like the Lincoln memorial rotated is also on the reverse.
The coin weighs 3.11 grams and the obverse is blank.
However, the thickness is not uniform.
Also, the coin is almost the size of a nickel which suggests to me it is a Texas cent and not from the mint.
I cannot see how this came from the mint and I am trying to figure out how someone could have made this coin.
I am confused. Any ideas?
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It's a vise job, or "squeeze job". The only difference here, is that this coin got "vised" by several different coins (or perhaps the same coin multiple times in different orientations).
It's the sort of thing that might even arise as an "accidental vise job", where someone uses a couple of coins to stop a table or chair (or some other heavy piece of furniture) from wobbling - the coins might fall out a couple of times, so they get put back in the same place (but not facing the same way).
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice.
it's a squeeze job, but I can't explain the uniface and correct weight
My theory (this happened outside the US Mint):
A 1971-D Lincoln cent (coin "A") had the reverse of a Lincoln Memorial cent pressed into it. This caused pillars and other details to be indented into coin A.
Coin B (the one shown) was a normal cent and then it was squeezed with high force between a very hard flat surface and the obverse of coin A.
This flattened the Lincoln side of coin B and imparted an indentation of the obverse of coin A onto the Memorial side of coin B. And since coin A previously had indented pillars from a previous squeeze, those pillars came out raised on coin B.
Dcarr thank you for your theory. Makes sense to me I just don't know why someone would go through all this trouble unless they were trying to sell it to someone for a lot of money. That would be sad.
FYI
I received it with other coins and it cost me nothing.
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Sometimes people do odd experiments, not necessarily to scam anyone.
I made this one as a test to see if it could be done but I never tried to sell it to anyone.
Note the Eisenhower profile and "S" mint mark imparted onto this 1971-D Kennedy Half Dollar:
Nice transition of the 2 Presidents: the outgoing and incoming.