1911 s Wheatie Error Coin

The detective in me found this coin to be irresistible. I've never seen anything like it and I don't know enough about the minting process to explain this. The outside diameter is exactly the size of a penny and the diameter of the inside imprint seems to match that of a dime exactly. Any ideas I've come up with don't jive with the distance the wheat stalks are from the rim or how the obv. rim follows in from the edge. Any ideas?

 

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Could have been grinded down on obverse.

 

Could have been grinded down on obverse.

 

Send it in to PCGS....... give it a shot!

 

I thought of that but it doesn't explain why the rim and the L in Liberty are so far from the edge. I guess the stalks are placed about right but the rim was never struck at the bottom of the coins Rev.

 

Could have been in one of those lucky penny holders for many years before being released.
11-S is a good date, but I doubt this was a mint error.

 

Hey ,I believe in those lucky penny holders, my 1922 no D came from my Grandpas!

 

My thought, also.

 

The penny holder doesn't explain how the raised rim and the L in Liberty are in from the edge of the coin. You just can't move that stuff over.

 

The dies used to encase these in a lucky holder can do all kinds of strange stuff to the rims.

 

That stuff is copper, and yeah, you CAN just move it over. Take a cent and smack it with a hammer.

 

I would think that would cause a lot of distortion, this coin is exactly the size of any other cent.

 

If the copper had moved outwards, it would, but the holder it was placed into prevented that so the copper squished toward the center. Picture doing this with Play Doh.

 

Fun coin. This is how I understand Lucky holders. They are blank when the coin is put in the hole. At this point they are struck with the Lucky dies and seals the coin in the holder. Your coin looks like the Lucky dies were off center when struck.
Could you get an image of the edge? Does it look anything like these images?

 

Solved!

 

Thanks to everyone, I had a hard time believing it was a lucky charm penny until I saw these pics. Seeing is believing!

 

A bit late to this thread, but yes, it was in one of those "lucky penny" holders.

One way I look at coins I think might exhibit a mint error is to think how such an error could have happened. For example, in the above picture I couldn't think of a process this coin would have gone through at the mint for it to become an error. Also, I've seen quite a few like these from lucky penny holders.

 

It's off sintered planchet. The top of it it blank and missing the top of the words.

 

Sorry but no. The post above explain it.