terminology query.. wheatie error with pic What is the term for a coin that it looks like the obverse was hit so hard it caused the reverse to rise in the shape of the obverse design. I took a gamble without being sure. Probably overpaid... what is this and what is it worth?
I have one similar, obv waves only no issues on rev Yours doesn't appear to have any issues on obv from viewing on my Droid. Upon further exam, that's Abe's. Head. I gotta go pull mine out now.
It's ghosting from die deterioration. Maybe a couple of dollars tops. It's pretty common on wheat cents.
lol well I hope 11.75 wasn't too many dollars. I have hundreds of thousands of cents and haven't found one myself yet... well, I've paid 10 bucks for worse things in my life
No that isn't too bad. But when people try to sell them as die clashes or double struck errors on fee bay, it annoys me. I hope whoever you bought it from didn't tell you it was something else.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...BmWoXTc%3D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK:MEWNX:IT take a look for yourself. They say they don't know if it's a ...... and name a list. I just think it's neat, and like I say, I've done worse, but a search for "die ghosting" gave me 2 results: a nickel on this forum, and a 55 wheatie on coincommunity... Our fellow CT'er paid $12 for his nickel so I'm ok but thanks for giving the phantom a name lol.
