I found this thing about 3 years ago while looking thru my huge amount of wheat backs. I had already looked thru these coins at least twice before I finally noticed this one. I saw one just like this one on Ebay a long time ago and told the seller his coin was altered. I wish now I had not done that. I suppose about anything can happen to a coin at the mint. this coin has a reeded edge with a slanted tilt to the reeding. this appears to be a true mint error because the coin still has it's nice original brown tone yo it and the reeded edge also has the same identical brown toning. I have had the coin for over 30 years in a coffee can and never knew it was there until lately. maybe the planchet got stuck in a dime reeding machine before being struck and this may account for the slanted reeding because the planchet may have not fit right. either way it is a good conversation piece regardless of what happened to it. . I'm also adding photos of a unusal double struck cent I found a while back. the unusal thing about this one is that the coin was rotated between strikes and now one set of the letters are on top of the other set of letters and can be identified as to which letters they are.
I added these two photos in my first post and for some reason they didn't get on here. notice the sunken in place on Lincoln's coat. If I had not noticed this and got to looking I would have overlooked this awesome coin.
Your coin has been altered. Someone filed the edge of your cent to make what appears to be reeding. I would bet that if you looked at the valleys of the "reeding" you would see file marks, not ejection marks. Also: 1) To my knowledge, the Mint does not have a 19 mm collar with reeding. 2) Think about it - how would a coin easily eject from a collar with reeding that was at an angle, especially reeding that is ununiform like that on your coin?
What's the diameter of your penny? My guess is it's gotten caught in a counting/rolling machine. PMD is my opinion.
I went and compared this cent coin to a dime and the diameter is the same as the dime. I think you may be right about this coin getting caught in some type machine and it would be really hard to tell if it was done at the mint or after.I don't think someone was trying to make a altered error coin because it looks like they would have tried to make the reeding straight across the edge. It looks like this thing was wobbling while this happened to it . there are a few places where it looks like the reeding only goes about halfway across the edge then reeding comes from the other side and looks to be offset in the center.someone bought a coin that looks exactly like this one off Ebay a few years back and I wish I could get up with that prrson to look at their coin.
PMD the reeding isn't even straight. It's a crude tool job by some bored kid back before they had computers and video games.
I cant find it... but in another post someone said that when they were a kid in the 50's they would grind down penny's to the size of a dime to use in soda vending machines. I bet that this is a MOCK dime that was made up to cheat a coke machine. which would account for the patina being even. it was most likely done when it was a shinny new penny.
When looking at possible errors the first thing to consider is "could this have happened in the minting process?" The reeding on a dime occurs during the actual minting of the coin not by a seperate machine before. The collar that the planchet is held in is actually the reeding die. A Cent planchet is larger than a dime planchet and could never fit into a dime collar so this could not have happened at the mint. If it doesn't happen during the minting process then it must be post mint damage. Richard
Wow!! I may have one of them famous coins old Ronald Foster altered . What a story my old beat up cent could tell if it could only talk.
