Lincoln wheat Cent 19-- d Ghost image of Abraham

This is a 1200dpi scan untouched can you see Ab's ghost?
black and white filter applied
I tried scanning it with different angles of light

Some lines I put on the picture to show where to look.

Im not sure what the red cresent is but when you move the coin around in a light source you can see a ghost image of Ab wich is really shinny(a dull kind of shinny not a shorp kind of shinny) on the edge of the ghost images face near the rim! Its really neat to play with different light angle it looks like a holographic image of Ab's face moving outward towards the rim!
Any one have a couple of Pennies to wiegh in on this with? I'll give you a penny for your two cents!

 

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I dunno... people see images in all sorts of thing. I think if you're seeing Abe's ghost you might be stretching it a little. I guess it depends on the meds... back in the 60's, I saw Mr. Budweiser come right out of the bottle. Now if you had said Casper, I might have bought that.

 

I know you won't like to hear this but your coin is not an error. You posted this coin in another thread - http://www.cointalk.com/t187692/ - but I guess you did not get a definitive answer about this coin because the other thread was mainly about a quarter that someone damaged but you were certain it was a "spectacular". This Lincoln Cent is not a "spectacular" error or any other kind of error. It is a plain, common, ordinary Lincoln Cent.

 

i agree with Hobo, not an error. What you see on the coin is up to your individual imagination. in fact, I see the face of a poodle.

 

I think it looks like one of Alf's relatives. Seriously, I tried an overlay and if that is truly what you are seeing, Abe has a shrunken top and a stretched chin/neck. i.e. it does not fit.

 

I was thinking more along these lines.

very imaginative though!

 

Isnt that what happens when a coin in pressed metal flows outward in all directions? So a previously raised image on the metal will be flattend out or dragged towards the edge of the coin.

 

I never said i was certin about anything I was only trying get some help to figure my quarter out. I described my quarter as spectaular because it was the best discription. The closer I look at it the better it gets!
at least hind sight is still 20/20

 

Not the way you had it drawn.

 

yeah i did that with the line tool on ms paint i was just trying to show the area of intrest!

 

can anyone see if its a 1909 D/P or 1919 D/P.

 

Was never a "P" on the 1909. It was either a "D", "S" or blank.

 

I see the face of a poodle?

The way I look on 2 black dot and another one in a bottom and a dark line umderneath my imagination is not a poodle but a face of a WOLF! awoooooo!:thumb::rollling:

 

I will take all those 1909-D's you can lay your hands on.

 

See what happens when you don't finish your morning coffee.

 

Im not sure if it is 1909 or 1919 the last nine is really shinny when you hit it with the right light and visable if you look cloose at scan. the 1 or 0 looks more like a 1 when the light shines on it right but is kind of oblong so im not sure even with a micro scope. Its almost easy to see them with the nekked eye with the right angle of light rather than a microscope. If you look close there is a black indentation under the date that looks like the center of a D mint mark but it could also be the center of a P mint mark. I see very very faint indentations were it would make the leg of the p thats just my opionion(what the eye see the mind belives).

 

I would be cool to see the mint use some kind of pre stamp on coins to add hard to counterfiet properties to coins but im sure they have there own ideas A. Maybe like some holographic pences near the edge of coins on the relief or maybe a centered inbetween the center of the coin and the rim.

 

It's hard to say. If it is a 1919 then it should have the "VDB" under Lincoln's bust. Use a jeweler's loupe and see if you can find one.

 

interesting I was looking for the VDB near the bottom rim of the reverse. THANKS for the tip

 

I would have to say this coin is worth more then face value. I would say it is worth 2.72 cents because of the copper value in it. I found that at coinflation.com. BTW I think this is the second or third thread on this coin.....