Hi Fellow CoinTalkers, I started searching rolls of US cents more than a year ago, setting aside those that seemed 'interesting' to my wholly uneducated eye. Now that I am here on CoinTalk learning what is an error or variety and what is not, I have started examining all my 'pennies' anew. Here is one I hope you will find interesting. It reminds me of the wasp or bee hive @paddyman98 showed us a couple of weeks back, but it is not hanging on a column. All the bee hive die chips I have seen on the Internet seem to be on columns; so, since this one is hanging under a ledge of the roof of the monument, I thought it looked more like a bird nest. If anyone has seen one, will you please post it? Also, since the rim is flat and not rounded, I am thinking that the obverse is not misaligned. Is that correct?
@LaCointessa Nope! Yours doesn't look like a hornets nest like the one @paddyman98 posted. It looks more like a mud daubers nest. Chris
Oh nice.. Small Die Chip. I would of called it some kind of Bird's Nest. Interesting. The Obverse is a Misaligned Die Strike.
Yaaaayyy @paddyman98 !!! That's IS what I thought it should be called but I did not want to do anything more than suggest a numismatic nomenclature I have not seen before without your input. Thanks!!
What is it you meant about the rim is flat and not rounded. So any time one side or the other is a bit off its a mad. Cool find!!!! Birds nest sounds cool
Hi Steve.e, Now I am thinking I did not quite understand that a misaligned die strike can be seen on a coin where the rim is still rounded (as on a coin that has not sustained PMD in that area), and that it can also be seen on a coin that has suffered PMD by being flattened somehow along the rim. So, when I think I'm looking at a coin with evidence of a misaligned die strike, I should examine the rim carefully to exclude the case where one side sustained rim damage making the coin appear to be the result of a misaligned die strike when it actually is not. Is that clear as mud? If so, I'll try again after work.
