1999 D LMC w/false die Franklin Roosevelt

I nearly had a heart attack when I saw this but then I was like wait a second... a cent planchet won't fit in a dime collar... Either way it's interesting and has an ethereal vibe so I'm keeping it. Just wanted to share with everyone because sharing is caring.

 

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Sorry, I'm having trouble understanding what I'm seeing here. So, if I understand correctly, this is a coin that has been doctored to look like it was originally stamped with a Roosevelt Dime die and then restamped with a Lincoln Memorial Penny die?

 

Honestly I don't know myself, lol. It does look like it was stamped to death though not only with a dime die but also a LMC die from the doubling of the memorial in the top right.

 

Whatever happened to it I'm %99 sure it isn't any type of error and yes really odd.

 

Not the collar but it won't be with the rossies when its struck because its not possible for a Lincoln planchet to fit with dimes when struck in the chamber.

 

I knew it was wrongish but couldn't come up with the correct term so I just rolled with it, lol.

 

But rare events do happen such as mule errors.For example imagine a Lincoln cent with instead of the Lincoln memorial e.t.c there's the reverse of a roosevelt dime.

 

Those are fascinating but I've never seen one in person. I believe it was paddyman that had posted several mule errors not long ago.

 

Sometimes they only effect a small area but this appears to be a classic vise job to me.

 

I would like to see how it's done just once. Back in bible School when I was a kid we would take coins and make molds of them in wax to make plaster coin tokens. I always wondered how they make false dies sturdy enough to survive striking a coin.

 

You can find the Cent/Dime mule on this site: https://coins.ha.com/itm/errors/200...velt-dime-reverse-ms66-red-pcgs/a/1331-3158.s
Here's a photo

 

Here's an old Coin Talk thread about a 2000 P Cent overstruck on an already struck 2000 P Dime: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/on...erstruck-on-an-already-struck-00-dime.191274/
It's struck on both sides. A photo is on the thread.

 

@JCro57
Any thoughts?

 

On his upper arm, the bits you see of GOD and TRUS are not backwards or upside down which would lessen the chances of it being a vice job.

You were quite correct to say that a cent wont fit in a dime collar, a planchet is struck when in the collar. The collar is the third die in the process giving the edge it's characteristics, smooth, reeded or text etc.

 

Definitely no good. Someone made a fake brockage as a die and squeezed it on this cent. Easy call

 

Looks like a cat counterfeit to me. The portrait doesn't look close to real.

 

Like the 1993 Lincoln mule with a Roosevelt dime reverse. $100,000 +

 

Paddyman, what's your thought on this coin?

 

I had asked Joe Cronin in a previous post. I agree with his statement a few posts back of it being altered.

 

Thanks paddyman.