1927 Double Struck Penny

That's what I was thinking... I can't think of an example of this.

 

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Yeah I was thinking about some of the restrikes like the Confederate coins, but are they "forgeries"?

 

A Hennings Nickel is worth a great deal more than the genuine coin. Many contemporary counterfeit CBHs are worth more than the genuine coin. I am sure there are many more examples.

 

Yeah but I guess I was thinking about "false errors" rather than contemporary counterfeits.

 

Morning guys, all hail the new day sun.....This has been a long post, what is the record on pages for a post? I had a 1944 D 1C in mind as an example. In the 50's they would make these look like 1914 D's. Some of those go for a premium, and some got sold as legit 1914 D's.

 

Also there were cases of people taking the 1943 steel cents and striking them together to make a die, then they would take the 43 penny and press it into a 1941 copper cent. BLAM....1943 copper cent. I think one in G-4 goes for about 32K. Most examples, according to the article I read were swept up by the secret service and the one's that didn't are worth a premium.

 

A coin made with false dies is worth MAYBE a couple of dollars to one of the very few collectors who cares about it... A genuine US mint 43 copper cent is worth a large amount of money... The two are on different ends of the spectrum.

I'd also like to see some citation about the secret service "sweeping them up".

 

OOPS......:foot-mouth: I think I just repeated what Condor101 already said. I was trying to think of examples and that was some of the first cents to come to mind, I see why now. Sorry Condor.

 

I did, post 75 and 76 mention the cents I had in mind. I apologize to Condor101 and the person who posted 75.

 

the frist thing I would do id to send to to John Wexler he's very cheap and very good at what he does good luck

 

The first thing i would do would be to spent it saving everyone time and money.

 

It all comes down to integrity. There is no way I could sell a forged/faked/doctored coin to some one for above face value and still be able to look at myself in the mirror. Just because people sell them for high dollar amounts doesn't make it right.

 

Don't get me wrong I don't condone the practice of altering any cent. We were just trying to come up with examples of counterfeits that were possibly worth premiums ( as counterfeits).

 

Obviously I'm no expert, and I'm clueless on how the machine exactly works that strikes the planchet, but for some reason catastrophic collar failure on start up from misaligned dies keeps ringing in my head. This cent was struck once, being greased to the top die, next planchet comes in and this coin is struck again.

Am I reaching too far? Lol

 

Probably.

 

A second strike from the coining press would wipe out most of the first strike especially in the field areas of the second strike. That isn't the case with this coin. It doesn't happen withthe brass faulse die because the brass still gives some instead of flatting the first strike. If you were to look at the false die after the second strike you would see two incuse images in it.

 

Condor, where you been? you never did accept my apology.

 

can I see the edge

 

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Got the results. 1927


1C
DAMAGED TO RESEMBLE ERROR
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Ugly...but strangely very cool :thumb: