Strange Double Struck 1944 Cent

Looks very cool

 

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Nice pick up Matt!

 

No offense Matt but this one kinda looks homemade to me. it just has too many warning signs like the word liberty being too mushy looking on the last strike. I hope I'm wrong and as you know I have been wrong a few times. everyone goofs up every now and then. I remember a coin a few months back that had the same type tiny letters in between the original letters but can't remember what it turned out to be. now days we have to be careful because about any knowlegable crook can make anything they want to. this coin will be a good one for us to learn from.

 

What is remaining of the upper part of the "C"on the reverse could use some explaining, very interesting coin, you scored!

 

It's definitely genuine Rascal.

 

Crazy coin. I love it.

 

You may be right . whether real or fake it has been struck three times. on the obverse side the word WE is visible three times and the second strike of the word TRUST was completely wiped out. all that is visible of the first strike is part of the words WE and TRUST. the two sets of the words IN GOD that are visible are from second and third strike. where the coin is a little larger than normal in diameter makes it a little suspicious but weird things can happen. I wish you good luck with it and I like these weird error coin. the two really weird ones I showed on here both of them were real except one was labeled wrong in my opinion . this shows we can always learn new things.

 

I've been following Mike's comments over on the Yahoo group. Looks like you've got an interesting one here.

 

What a cool looking cent! Please post follow-ups!

 

Mind posting a link to this "Yahoo group"? I'd like to hear what others are saying, thanks.

 

Matt nice error!

 

It's a private Yahoo group headed up by Mike Diamond, so to the best of my knowledge there is not a way to direct link to it.

 

Any way you could relay his comments here? I'd like to hear his explanation...

 

ME 3!

 

just google yahoo coin group , I think about anyone can join the group if they want to. It said the group was for new and old coin collectors to learn about error coins.

 

guys do any of you remember a coin we were discussing on CT a while back like say somewhere around 6 months or maybe longer that had tiny letters like this one between the letters of the normal letters ? these tiny letters on the coin looks to me like they had been added to the die before the strike but I'm getting old and don't see as good as I once did. I can't remember for sure where I saw a similar struck coin with the unusal letters , I believe it was on this forum. Matt sure has found a weird one and a good looking one to learn from.

 

Matt is sending me the coin. There might be evidence of a third strike on the reverse, but it's hard to tell from the photos. It does look as if there is a major horizontal misalignment of the reverse (anvil) die on the second strike. This is an extremely rare error requiring the collar to break apart or break free of its moorings. A horizontal misalignment of the anvil die requires the coin to be struck out-of-collar, which is the case here, at least on the second strike.

If this proves to be the case, I'd love to write it up for Coin World and, if possible, add it to my collection.

As for my group, it's open to the public for browsing. To post messages or photos, you need to join (that's simple and free). The link is:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/errorcoininformationexchange/

 

I think I have a similar error in a Canadian 1-cent, but the second strike out of collar is a bit more 'out there' or offset. I see similar features, especially with missing elements of the devices in the second strike and outlines of the devices from the first strike.

 

Your Canadian cent is an ordinary double strike, with the second strike off-center. In a misaligned second strike, only one face is offset.

 

How would the dies go that far out of alignment, in sequential strikes?? Or are we looking at a triple struck coin, with dies that were already mis-aligned??