Error Lincoln cent?

Could the obverse of this Lincoln cent be some sort of error? The reverse seems to be normal.

 

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Looks like a late stage brockage. Of course looks can be deceiving.

 

Is there any definitive way to tell whether it's a genuine Mint error or post-Mint alteration?

 

I will take a guess here die adjustment strike maybe

JC

 

it's definitely struck through something... prob through a very late stage obverse die cap.

 

I would think that too. But wouldn't both sides be affected, Of course I don't have too much experience in die adjustments.

 

This is not a die adjustment strike as both sides would be affected and the images would not be distorted, just very light and incomplete. This looks to me to be a late stage die cap. the cent that is stuck to the hammer die is pounded thin enough that lincoln's bust is very visible but the memorial from the revers is still visible. here's one I own that is an earlier state

http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t49464/

Richard

 

I agree that its a late stage die cap. Some years ago, I picked up a box of 1998's from the fed, all brand new. One of the rolls had 6 of those die caps in it. A great find. Also, a book I used to have that helped me ID errors, but have since given to my son is the error coin encyclopedia by Arnold Margolis.
Thanks,
Rock

 

I've seen coins look like that but they were acid treated & usually it's both sides not just one.

Interested in seeing what the determination by the majority is.

 

Thanks for the information and pictures. After comparing my coin with yours, and with some other die cap errors on the Internet, it looks like that is what I have. It came in a bag of mixed US-foreign coins that I bought last year.

 

Hi,

There is no doubt that the coin was struck through a late stage die cap. It is an error. It is not acid treated nor is it damaged after it left the Mint. Nice Find!

Thanks,
Bill

 

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