I bought this a few months back from a local coin shop, and thought i'd share it! Also anyone have any idea as to a value? I believe it's a 1969, you cant see it from the bad pics i took, but there is a visable 196 and whats appears to be an 4 or 9 but it appears to have a hook on the top like a 9 even though its faint...
Can you take pics of the coin outside the 2X2? The glare makes it hard to see the details of the coin.
Thats what i was thinking as well... It doesnt help that my camera is 8 years old... I'll get better pics posted!
What amazes me about this coin is that it looks like it was circulated quite a bit... I would have noticed the error right away, but maybe thats becasue i inspect every coin that makes it in my pocket!
Want to see how sloppy they can get in India with the brockages? Good luck finding a U.S. coin along these lines though...
It doesn't look that circulated to me. Pictures aren't the best but it looks high XF to AU. Nice piece from India. Very early stage Brockage.
There's a nick in the chest of abe, but you really cant tell from the pictures. And it looks fairly dirty in the crevices....
prolawn_care, From looking at the shots you have i can see where the columns on the obverse are raised. It reminds me of a combination of two Lincoln cents that I have. The first one is a VERY clashed Die and the second one that Mike Diamond President of CONECA told me was an in-collar uniface strike against a split planchet (striated side of the latter pointing toward the obverse die) Here are pictures of each coin so that you can compare them to yours. Plus (Just my humble opinion) I would try to contact someone like Mike Diamond, James Wiles or possibly Ken Potter with some pictures of your coin taken outside of the 2x2. I hope this helps Terry Coin 1 Heavy Die Clash Coin 2: in-collar uniface strike against a split planchet (striated side of the latter pointing toward the obverse die)
The cent at the top of this thread is a clashed cap strike -- a type of brockage. A late-stage die cap with a thin floor and featureless working face contacted the reverse die directly when a planchet was not fed into the striking chamber. The working face of the die cap picked up a partial impression from the reverse die. The result is a coin with a strong, raised ghost image of Lincoln overlain by a crisp but incomplete brockage. This coin probably represents the first impression of the clashed cap.
