Multiple strikes 2005 Penny

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Your coin based on your photo is PMD (post mint damage) it isn't a mint error someone had to much time on there hands (vice job).JMO
Dave

 

Notice that 'LIBERTY' is backwards? A die couldn't do that.
Two coins were pressed together. Your coin is not an error.

 

Exactly what they said. The backwards letters should be a clue as to damaged in a vice and not a Mint error. Value is one cent so spend it or keep as a reference.

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Dave - how do you suppose the impression of the word LIBERTY backwards could have been done? It is impressed across the shoulder from right to left.

 

It's glue or something else that another coin was pressed into. Definitely not a mint error.

 

Looks like a ASE was used in a vise to make that so called error.

 

Yes, I agree. But, I as interested in how it may have been done. Thanks.

 

Pile up two coins and slam them together as hard as you can with a hammer. You'll see.

 

Well, I don't doubt but don't want to do that. It looks like the word LIBERTY is raised letters. The method you described would impress the letters.

 

Step 1 - take a coin
Step 2 - put glue on coin
Step 3 - take 2nd coin and place on 1st coin
Step 4 - wait for glue to dry
Step 5 - Pry coins apart
Step 6 - Voila

 

OK, I must be slow. I still don't see how that results in the letters that are raised. The letters in the reversed liberty seem to be raised as they would be if it were stamped with a die. Am I seeing this all wrong?

 

That is glue residue.

 

Definitely Glue.
Sorry but not a Mint Error

What you have does not occur at the Mint.
No matter what you think it does not

 

I never thought it was a mint error either. But, what coin does the glue impression come from? I can't find any coins that the size of the letters coincides with.

 

Try looking at a ASE. It looks pretty close to the letters on the obverse.

 

At best you can get 2 letters of the ASE Liberty to fit in the field of a penny.

 

You might be able to do that with a dime.

 

I think I found the culprit. I just received an solicitation from a charity. Inside were a dime and a penny. Under each was glue to hold them on the paper. Look at the attached files and see how this may have worked to make the subject "error coin". The glue from the dime got transferred to the penny somehow.

 

Great! Sooner or later something happens and the light gets turned on. At least you're willing to learn. So many are not.