I'm not one to post my "finds" but I am curious about this one. I picked this up last week with some other coins from the guy I deal with at the local flea market (I've dealt with him since I started collecting several years ago, I do trust him). Not sure if this was done with a vise, or if it started it's merry life into circulation this way. I know the photos aren't that good (I am not a photographer) but the obverse is near smooth and the reverse looks like a double strike. There's no money involved (he threw it in because he knows I like the unusual stuff). So, just tell me what you think.
It kind of looks like someone put another coin under it and then beat the heck out of the face with a hammer.
Beat it with a hammer while a dime was under it. You can see part of "ONE DIME" on the left hand side of the picture.
first one i have seen like this but it has been struck on a real cent coin , the words WE TRUST are still visible. anyway that is a good slogan American mined , American made , I am a retired miner .
Again, the picture doesn't do it jsutice, and the wear doesn't help. Not sure about the dime. I'm not seeing the word, nor do I see any signs of the fasces when looking through a loupe. It appears to be more similar to the Lincoln Memorial (which could have been done via a vise, hammer, etc.). The size of the indentation is more consistent with a cent than a dime. I do appreciate the opinions. I'm debating on whether to keep it, or throw it in the jar so later on a roll hunter can find it and we can go through this all over again.
I'm thinking it's a die cap or has been struck with a capped die. If it was a press or vise job the "ONE ****" and "oF AMERICA" would be a mirror image. I'm also not seeing "ONE DIME" but "ONE CENT" based on "oF" at 12 o'clock.
The poster of post #2 and post #3 got it right . if you look directly in the center of the coin it is really easy to see the fasces or what some folks calls the torch from the dime . look at how beat up the obverse side is , it is easy to see without a doubt that a hammer did this.
If it was a hammer job, then wouldn't the image by incuse as well? This is obviously raised off the surface.
When I was a kid, my brother and I would put coins on the train tracks just to see what would happen. This kind of looks like some of the stuff we would get. The side on the rail could be pressed smooth and the side with the other coin on top would get all sorts of combos depending on how many cars ran over it. sometimes they would bounce off early and make neat coins, other times the entire train would smash them as flat and this as a piece of paper. In any case, I believe the coin is PMD. It just doesn't have the look of a capped die to me. gary
You could be right, after all. I just looked at this thing till me eye cramped, and I can see what you're talking about. I just can't see much else at the moment.
because you just are not seeing the dime part , what you are referring to is what is left of the original design of the cent.
