Very peculiar error!

I found this in my change a few days ago, could not find any information on it. Sorry about the poor quality of the images! It had gotten stamped twice lincolns head has a memorial stamped over it and the memorial has lincoln stamped over it. The coin is a 1972-D

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Sorry....can't tell what you have there from the pics. You could try shooting through a loupe if you have one or do a high resolution scan of the coin.

 

Hi Voka... I've only been on here a week myself, but found that the pics come out a lot better when you lean a digital camera up against a 10x or 20x magnifying piece. Can't wait to see what you have!

 

It is a coin that was squashed in a vise between two other Cents. The clincher? The image is mirrored from the transfers. All the higher devices on the coin are distorted from the opposite coin. You see this on ebay all the time for sale claiming to be a double struck cent. Just PMD.

http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/coop49/Vise_Squeezed_Cent.jpg

 

If you look at the second picture it looks like Memorial is raised off of Lincoln's head.

 

It is usually done between two blocks of wood. A couple of years ago, I bought a cent with a Montana quarter inverted onto the obverse and reverse. Well, since I had kind of just gotten into collecting for real, I didn't know what it was, so I consigned it to a dealer, who brought it to Fred Weinberg (Error Specialist) and he explained how it is done. The dealer, after that, tried it himself with different coins and the result was the same as the coin that you have. Here is a picture of the Montana quarter cent that I purchased for $5:

 

I superimposed a 2007 Cent onto the coin to see where it originally was:

 

This is correct the memorial is slightly raised off, you can only see the parts of the memorial that are most raised off the coin, same with the head.

 

Now I superimposed the Montana Quarter onto the coin to see the main areas. Notice the the design was inverted because, of course, a coin's actual design is never usually backwards :

 

You say that the memorial is raised and not incuse? This would mean that the image is probably the results of two coins being glued together and then pealed apart. Study the coin under a microscope and you should be able to see the seam at the edge of the glue. If you soak the coin in acetone the glue should loosen up and peal off.

Richard

 

I agree. (I think you meant "glue" instead of "ink".)

 

yep, minor brain phart there, it has been corrected,

 

The glue is probably what it is, when i first looked at it one side looked like glue, almost threw it back but changed my mind, thanks for the help