i have a penny i found at my job.it is a 1947D with the wheat stamped over lincoln head and it's backwards. it is also in the shape of a nickle. i have been told it's a fake and that someone pressed it. but here's my ? if it were pressed wouldn't it have flatend lincoln's features or the lettering. there is also a faint imprint of the wheat cent on the back of it. it's allmost invisible. i just want to know if it's worth anything or not.
If you could take a photo it would help a great deal The other day at the bank they were telling me about a rare coin....a quarter that had a head on both sides...The lady that had it told them it was worth $20,000---I told them my idea but I don't know if it helped.. Speedy
thank you all for your help, i will try to get a better picture of the penny. in the mean time how do i get to the main fourm. once again thank's for all your help.
When you get to Coin Talk....www.cointalk.org you will see the words MAIN COIN FORUM--that is it. Speedy
I found your picture - but it is much too small even when blown up to see what is going on. Try to post additional pics of both sides of the coin. But before you upload them here - crop the picture and increase the size so we can see the coin's details.
Well, something that I don't know was mentioned or not, but the imprint is in fact incuse ( I think that's the word )
It appears to be - but ya can't tell for sure based on that blown up image. I played with the pic too - just can't tell. We'll see what's goin on if he gets better pics
Yes you can see it - but you can't see it well enough to know HOW it got there. There are several different ways it could have happened - clashed dies, capped die error or faked capped die error. To even have a chance of making an educated guess as to the cause - we need better pics.
I played with it in photoshop, it definatly looks like the one cent on the obverse is a negitive image of the die, meaning it was pressed into the coin......I think thats waht i mean...yeah
