I am needing a little help with doubled wheat stalks and if this is what is going on here. I'm also curious about the mint mark. It looks much flatter than the normal filled S variety. Sorry for the pictures. I have the hardest time with steelies.
The photos make the coin look like it was replated, which could explain the wheat stalk on the back. Otherwise, it's just a die chip and a piece of the wheat stalk line fell off the die. I wouldn't recon it worth more than any other steel cent.
The wheat leaf is incuse on the die. How could a line of it fall off? I don't see any doubling. Chris
Simple, a piece could've broken off the die, leaving a hole in the die, making a raised area between two of the stalks, making two stalks look like one big stalk. Of course, I don't know much about what an incuse on the die means so it's time to do some research.
Incuse is the opposite of raised. If a piece broke off the die, it would produce a die chip on the coin. How could that possibly be doubling? Besides, the arrows on the OP's photo point to the area to the left of the wheat. Chris
The arrows are intended to draw attention to the area of the wheat I am questioning. They aren't exact. Forget it though as I'm going along with it's not doubling. I'm just curious what would make that happen.
Your response implied I was suggesting doubling. I never thought there was doubling, I was trying to supply other means for what happened to the coin.
Pay little attention to Chris(the local forum troll). His life is less than satisfactory so he comes here to agitate people.
That was my first post in this thread, so I responded to your comment as well as the OP's at the same time. Note that my comment about the doubling is separated from the rest of the post. Chris
I was replying to the most recent response not the one previous to it. I neglected to respond to the doubling response as a second/separate comment because I believed it to be for the OP and not for me. I don't see any doubling either.
