MAJOR doubling, or coins hammered together?

Is this gigantic doubling, or coins hammered together by someone?


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PMD. I have seen many "fakes" like these from the 40's and 50's sometimes even made by the mint themselves, but I am no expert, just my opinion.

 

What? The mint makes "fakes"?

 

double struck?

 

looks interesting though but also looks to be run over to me a lot but i don't know much at all......

 

It looks like a vice-job...where two coins are put in a vice and smashed together. That is why some of the wording on the coin appears mirrored.

Fakes made by the mint? What are you talking about?

 

i cant make out the lettering but i see the wheat, isn't there a type of strike where they sometimes flip and get restruck?

 

or i think i see wheat on the obverse, i am a bit crazy

 

Yes. I think another wheat cent was squeezed against this one so the imprint of the reverse of another is indented on the obverse of this one...and if you look, the "One Cent" text appears to be mirrored. That tells me this was done with a vice and is PMD.

 

sorry, that was not what I meant. I heard some stories a while ago of some mint workers during that period of time were deliberately making these errors. Not sure if this is the case.

 

oh ty, i couldn't make out the lettering

 

The coin has been damaged. It didn't leave the mint like that.

 

I have heard some rumors like that too...but I don't think there is any evidence of it. That seems like a really fast way to at least lose your job...if not worse.

 

I know that you're alluding to the clandestine striking of certain coins/errors, but this is not one of them.

 

How can you tell?


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What Camaro said

 

lol

You could weight the coin. If it is the weight of more than 1 penny, fair bet that it was the vice job Camaro mentioned.

 

No one would have clandestinely made such a coin at the mint for the simple fact that there would be no real benefit in doing so. Think about it... if one had the opportunity and wished to do such a thing, would they not make something unique and valuable instead of something that could be replicated in a basement?

Why, if a vice job, do you think it would weigh more than a normal cent?

 

Squeezing 2 coins together does not necessarily mean that one coins transferred actual material to the other, it may only have transferred the design. The oblong shape and overall damage is indicative of a coin being damaged outside the mint.

 

I agree, how would that change the weight? The bummer part is the letters are mirror like, according to the others; I really like the impression of the wheat!