Double strike? What kind of error is this?

I found this today. You can see WE TRUST. On the reverse it looks like UNUM at the bottom of the coin.

 

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I’m not an expert but looks like someone slammed a coin on top of that one. You can sort of tell by the ridge. Paddyman98 might have a better take on it.

 

I don't think it's a simple vise job; the extra lettering isn't incuse, and isn't reversed, and I don't think it's imaginary, either. Let's raise the official @paddyman98 signal...

 

This coin is worth close to 75,000! Wow score

 

Please stop doing this. It really isn't funny

 

It's not any kind of known Mint Error.
Somehow it was damaged by someone after it left the Mint.

 

No
And if you are going to talk about money value you need to use the symbol $

 

There is actually a find in,I believe Kentucky, by a coin dealer and his wife, of a coin with a second strike running in a curve along the inside edge of the coin.The found coin was/is referred to as a "Discovery Coin" , being the first known of it's kind.

I really wish I could remember the source of that read. It was just this past few months when I saw it. I could swear someone linked to it here on Coin Talk !!

 

Get lost! Go burn down a pawn shop.

Chris

 

I was just reading some stuff online and I think the guy who found the Discovery Coin for the double strike is Jeff Garrett of Lexington, Kentucky.

 

I might know what you are talking about.. Unfortunately the Cent in this thread is just damaged.

 

How do they get the lettering going inthe same direction?

 

Only the person that created it would know. All I know is that it is impossible to occur during the minting process.

 

you make a "die"

press a coin onto another coin or flat sheet of copper .. and viola, you have yourself a "die" to press the correct orientation verbage onto another coin.

 

The obverse rim is a vise job, so I assume the reverse is damage also. As said above not possible. Reverse dies have been made from a gold coin, if the speed and force of the collision is high enough before the gold coin distorts.

 

Thanks for all of the info!

 

Hey Sarge, Welcome to Coin Talk !!

Keep 'em comin' !

 

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