Hey everyone is this Lincoln cent a triple strike and also saddle struck? Trying to figure out correct terms for the error. Thanks!
It appears to be a saddle strike of a previously struck coin. A saddle strike is unique to a dual coin press - two pairs of dies mounted close to one another. Chris
Thanks Chris so saddle struck and triple strike or just called saddle strike? Sorry have been looking online off and on for while trying to figure it out and learn terms. Any guess on value wise? Does it make more valuable if would have been bigger size on them? Appreciate the help!
"Saddle Strike" will do. I have no idea about value. Have you searched FleaBay completed auctions to see if any others were listed? Chris
I don't think it's a saddle strike as the wrong part of IN GOD WE TRUST is showing. So it would be a conventional triple strike.
And if it was a saddle strike on a previously struck cent it would only be a double strike not a triple. The two images of a saddle strike are imparted with a single cycling or strike of the press. So it would be struck once for the regular strike, and once for the saddle strike, making it a double struck piece.
Translation: but next time, take it out of the holder before you take pictures [I really have to proof read better]
Why take it out of the holder? The pictures of the coin within the holder adequately display what the OP was asking.
A saddle strike IS a double strike, in my book. The strikes are simply delivered in tandem, rather than in successsion. True, there's only a single downstroke involved, but the coin is receiving two separate impacts. In the end it really doesn't matter whether you consider it a single strike or a double strike, as long as you know what you're dealing with.
