I have a 1922 D penny that ended up in Findlay, OH in 1923 because it has one of those keep me and never go broke suvineer casings around it, from the World Acquaintance Trip 1923, Findlay Chamber of Commerce. Anyway, the reverse of the penny itself, you can see the die imprint of Lincoln, now I was told that this was from the first 3 to 500 produced off of this machine, as they made die adjustments, and I was also told it was an error. Anyone know about it I take all opinions.
Maybe a buzzard run into it ? If you know anything about Findlay, OH, you'll understand my lame joke.
vujo: From your description it sounds like a clashed die (the reverse of the penny itself, you can see the die imprint of Lincoln). And I would agree about "now I was told that this was from the first 3 to 500 produced" since the clashing quickly wore off. As for value: no value in addition to the value of the coin.
Frank - based on his description the impression was caused while the coin was in the encasement machine - not at the US Mint, so this is not a clashed die. From the sound of things I would suppose that a coin got stuck in the encasing machine during the adjustment process and that is what caused the obv impressions on the reverse of the first few coins run thru the encasing machine. vujo - if the coin had any particular value it would only be to a collector of encased cents because to a coin collector the cent would be considered as damaged. But since you say the encasement is broken I doubt that it would have any value even to them.
GDJMSP: hmm........I was so busy concentrating on the clashed die that I missed the encasing. vujo: Probably: Never mind.
