I know essentially nothing when it comes to coins. I found this today searching Loomis rolls and I would appreciate any information you guys may have.
My thought at first too. Just not sure how the metal on the obverse would get like that without any damage along the left side.
Post mint damage. Maybe done with hydraulic press, and squeezed more than one coin. Like a vice job but with more power.
For the sake of argument, lets say it wasn't pressed. What kind of value would this have? Also, I took it to a coin shop and they did not think it was pressed.
This has been said many times before on CT but bears repeating; you should never assume it's an error because you can't explain how it was damaged. You should always ask "how could this have occurred during the minting process The minting and die making process is well documented and understood. There are countless ways a coin can be damaged after it leaves the mint. So for the sake of argument, how did this occur during the minting process?
Good line of thinking. I don't know enough to figure that out. Here are a few more pictures that make some features more obvious.
That is damage. Not a Brockage. Not all coin dealers specialize in attributing mint errors. The very bored person who created it would know how it was created.
If you can't figure out how it was made at the mint, then it likely wasn't. It's not about knowing enough, it's about thinking through the process of an obverse and reverse die striking a blank planchet. What would need to happen for the obverse image to be transferred to the coin, then the same coin is struck again, with what?????, to create the pattern shown? Not knowledge, just logic, think it through.
Again, that's what I thought. I was surprised that with the pressure used on the obverse that the reverse wasn't distorted more/flattened to oblivion.
Quite different but still damaged. This could not have occurred at the Mint. There are countless ways this could have been done after it left the Mint.
Put 3 coins together in a vice and tighten them. This will transfer images backwards. Look at the date just under the one cent on 1st picture reverse
obverse looks pressed. by some spare metal pressed onto it. You can see Abe's outline still there, etc. The object was pressed off canter, and looks to have bent the cent especially on one side. If a vice seems like too much effort (it's not), for extra force you can get some pretty cheap, small hydraulic presses from harbor freight and go bizerk. reverse clearly has the date impressed on it.
