That's what I was saying before, you can't trust your eyes on stuff like this when looking at photos. Lack of depth from a 2-D image makes it an optical illusion, you can see it as both. Have you ever looked at a brockage error and think "well that doesn't look incuse"? I certainly have.
Did you even look at the overlay that I provided? (Post #21) It clearly shows that it's the other side of the Cent.. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Rick, whatever it is we have gotten somewhere. The best thing would of been if the OP had taken better or more pictures of the Cent! If I saw something like that and it was for sale at a decent price I would of bought it! I love crazy Cents like that! This one is mine -
I think you can bring this to any bank and return it as defective, and they will replace it with another Lincoln cent for you at no charge.
Of course the image has to be Lincoln, but at first glace I was wondering why was the image of Curly Howard on the back of the coin?
Its a hole with part of Lincoln down inside, look at the right side of the photo, you can see the depth, its probably 3/4 of the thickness of the coin deep.
OK everyone. I'm going to try to explain this error with a quick drawing I did at work. It's simple - So in 1943 a Defective Planchet that was ready to be struck between the Anvil, Hammer and in the Collar was correctly struck on both the Obverse and the Reverse. Then the Cent came out of the chamber and do to it being Defective a piece of it came unattached, the missing part that we see in coinzip's picture is the crater left behind (missing Lamination) and deep enough to see the other side of the Cent. Hope this makes sense! I have seen errors like this myself also.
This is not a lamination error. As I said, this is a brockage from a struck fragment. This is a well-known error type.
Maybe the coin wasn't for sale. I sat down next to Alan last Friday as he was going over error and varieties coins from quite a few at the Gettysburg show. He even scoped out a few of my coins and yes I even let him hold on to 2 of them.....however they aren't for sale! And they are VG - to F in condition . Both coins were buffalo nickels maybe worth 50 cents each.....maybe a lot more if what I believe them to be can be proven . I was also with Alan about 6 months ago at a show in Hagerstown Md. A customer came up with two error coins. These were fakes . It took Alan about five minutes using the scope to make that call. And BTW these were extremely well done fakes. I've known Alan for quite a few year's and believe me when I say this one day his name in numismatics is going to be a household name . Yes he is a friend whom I personally trust and respect with any thing I own.
