man made error

I saw a page not to long ago that showed how a simple bang of a hammer could leave and indention on a penny that looked like an error. I found one today...but what kind of tool could have done this? I can only think of wire cutters.

 

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on the first pic i posted, I just noticed that the three looks doubled.

 

take a look at this, it looks like the back of another penny stamped into the front of this one, i cant think of anyway to do this, being that if you lay a penny on top of another onr and strike it, smash it or whatever, it would smoosh both coins, nt causing an indent buta flat spot, in my opinion, this happened at the mint, may be a double strike.. maybe

 

Just post mint damage. A hammer, squeeze or whatever job.

 

can this be done with another penny? how would that be possible? now that i think on it, it couldn't have been a double strike, the letters "ER" are indented, if it was a double strike, they would've been the opposite way, im puzzled on this one...

 

I saw a post on something similar to this where someone had just whacked it with a hammer...took all of five seconds...people to this to coins all the time, but this is the first one I have run across..

 

but how do you explain the indentation of the back of another penny on the face of this one, TRUE the marks on the back are funny, and unexplained, as of yet, but how did the front get marked like it is

 

If you take the reverse of one cent and lay it on the obverse of another and squeeze it it's going to leave a incuse on the obverse of the reverse of the other. Don't know how else to explain it. Now get two coins and try it.

 

A hammer, vice or I am sure any number of things.

A hammer, vice or I am sure any number of things.

 

With a Copper/clad zinc a rolling machine can do it.it is easy to do with a C-clamp too

 

im not going to say im going to try this, because that would be an admission to defacing governmental property, but i will get back to this post asap

 

Defacing or destroying coins is perfectly legal. (Defacing CURRENCY so as to render it unfit to be reissued IS illegal.)

 

in that case, i tried this, i stacked three coins, one pre 1980 copper, and 2 post 1983 coins, copper in the center, offset, taped them in a pile, and hit them with a 32 oz framing hammer, as hard as i possibly could, aside from denting the ridge on the face of the copper
coin, no other damage was done.

so how could this have been done

 

Take a look at this thread and then get back with us.

http://www.cointalk.com/t79046/

 

ok, i stand schooled. thanks for the lesson

 

No problem. I learned a lot from that thread myself.

 

yea, that was the post I was talking about that I had seen...If I hadn't seen that Iwould have thought I had something. So,..I also stand schooled...