Triple Struck Rotated in Collar 1943 Steel Lincoln Cent. Good Luck. Tell me why you guessed what you did...
I think it is genuine. It looks like the bottoms of "LIB" were struck after a very slight CCW rotation, and then the "big one" occurred afterward. ~ Chris
IMHO - Genuine Reason - Because it would be harder to alter a harder Steel Cent than on a Copper Cent. In order to strike Steel Cents back in 1943 the US Mint had to adjust the Mint Press because the Planchets required more pressure.
The “understrike” is nowhere near crushed enough to be genuine. My guess is that a secondary image was applied to false dies. That would explain why the under image on the reverse is doubled. Fake coin. Not even an altered genuine coin.
I will preface this by saying I am absolutely not an error expert. I vote fake because in my mind if this double trick did happen, the image would have more of an appearance of a clash.
For example, Dan let me sherry pick this one. This is a genuine overstruck example with altered dies.
I’m like @Randy Abercrombie , I’m no expert on errors or anything else as far at that goes... I have been watching this this thread since it’s been posted @JCro57 and waiting for the answer. I’m going to guess that it’s altered at best. If it was struck in collar, the wheat straw would be closer to the rim and the reverse lettering wouldn’t be doubled since the first strike wasn’t. What makes me think it’s possibly fake is the hair, it just doesn’t look right. Might just be me though.
