192? Wheat penny

well this is one of the unusual coins I found in change some years ago
this coin has seen better days

what caught my notice was on the heads side there what looks to be a lamination error or that is what I have been told it is and how did such an error happen?

if it is or not is a matter of debate

 

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Wow, that's cool. Looks like '36 .

 

1926 or 1936 but a nice fold over lamination.

 

yeah the date is hard to guess at with the piece of metal over it
but yeah it caught my eye as unusual and well now it sits in my collection

 

Def. a keeper. Even @paddyman98 would like this one.

 

yeah it's in my collection now and since it was a gift it will stay in the collection

 

It does not happen during the striking of the planchet. The sheet the blank was cut out of had a defect when it was created. So laminations are present on the blanks when struck..

For example from my collection


And

 

thanks for explaining that to me paddyman98, I'm still learning about coins, and since errors aren't my strong point I'm gathering all info I can on them

 

It's probably just me, but it looks like a 1946 with the 4 covered by a piece of the metal that flapped over the number 4. The piece of metal that is missing from the rim to the number 4 is the same shape as the piece of metal that is covering up the 3rd digit in the date (4). That's how it looks to me, anyways.

 

That's a great lamination error. Not worth retirement money but sweet to find. Looks like a 1936 but a 26 is possible.

 

value has little meaning to me when I find error coins as they are interesting and odd, plus they get my notice so they get collected and put into my collection

 

I am seeing a 3 in the 3rd digit. If the top piece of the 4th digit is not deceiving,
I also see a 6. 1936.

 

as I said the date is a guess cause of the metal covering most of the date but overall not a bad error to find in change

 

These are really cool to find. Nice find.

 

Soo....I'm a bit confused, (nothing new really), but if the OP's coin was a planchet defect, you are saying then that this defect folded over the date after the coin was struck? Once it was in circulation. Just trying to understand. Unusual coin for sure as are yours.

 

basically it seems the copper sheet had some defect and when the blanks were cut the defect was on one of those copper blanks and my coin just happened to get the flawed copper blank and well the end result is what I showed