Hello Friends, I took a lot of pic of the cent and everytime I see a 2 at the end of the 199.... There is some type of error as well that make it hard to ID the coin. I know about the BOW area was different for the year but I can hardly see the BOW it does show a little DOT in the center of the Bow area. The coin has some type of Dye CLash on the area near the date as well. The letters seem different on the reverse as well due to some type of machine error. Appreciate your vote/advise on the (possible) 1992 Close AM cent. God Bless Beck PS: If you need more pic please let me know.
Mirza... What you have is called a Struck Through Grease Error. Nice one and a keeper. I want to share this webpage with you - http://www.error-ref.com/struck-through-smooth-viscous-material-grease-oil/ Not sure about the close AM. Looks like 1994 to me also.
Yes, it is a struck-through-grease. It also appears to be a close AM to me, but that is far from my area. If you could post a better picture of that FG to the right of the steps, someone more knowledgeable than I might have an answer.
Heres one of my that Mr. Potter posted on Coneca forums . I would use the images to show you, but Mr. Potter has copy rights to them and I would need his ok .. http://board.conecaonline.org/showthread.php?t=4420&page=2
Please excuse my butting in, but being new I don't know how to start a new thread. A while ago, a reader posted pix of a 1909-S Lincoln Cent with a ghost image of the 'V.D.B.' on the reverse. I posted my first post saying I had the same thing, but from Philly. Most readers agreed that it was a grease-filled die. I didn't think so. OK, here it is. I was just looking through my recently purchased book, 'The Official Red Book- A Guide Book of Lincoln Cents', by Q. David Bowers, and found something interesting. In discussing the removal of the 'V.D.B.' initials on the reverse, he quotes a letter the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury C.D. Norton sent to his boss Secretary of the Treasury Franklin McVeagh that the letters can't be erased from the mother die because it is intaglio, and it would take at least 14 days to make a new one: "This delay can be avoided by simply erasing the V.D.B. from the hub and having no B whatever on the coin. From the amended hub (italics mine) the coinage dies can be rapidly and promptly struck off within three days and the mint can continue the coinage of the pennies for which there is great demand..." Sure sounds to me like they used the hub that still had remnants of the 'V.D.B.' on it to make the working dies. Charles Barber, designer of the Barber dimes, quarters and halves, didn't want just the initial 'B' (for Brenner) on the cent because he was afraid people would think it stood for 'Barber', and he was opposed to the minting of the Lincoln cent.
Joey they can't erase the VDB off of the die. The letters are incuse on the die used to strike the blank. They would have to fill the letters in.
