Ever Seen a Lincoln like this

Anyone know of this error lincoln .The collumns are ghosted and there is a single leaf and a berry on the bottom of the collumn 1998 date.Worth sending to have it Classified?

cheers KIP

 

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Looks like a wee bit of double-die-ing, but paper $ is my forte.

 

The doubling most likely is a type of weird plating smear. I don't know the tech. name for it. I'm with Doug and the "leaf and berry" is corrosion.

 

johndo

maybe it's a Lincoln Booger?

 

The "ghosting" may be entirely normal. Compare your coin with a sample of others from the same time period. The "leaf and berry" appears simply to be a bit of crud.

 

machine doubling? or doubled die?

thanks for all replies guys .I am somewhat curious that if a coin is machined doubled.Should it not be symetrically struck .Either N,E,S,W depending on posistion of coin.I cannot fathom that a doubled die has almost the same chacteristics.But rightly different.How can a machine strike a perfect number sequence the second time .When clearly the initial contact with numbers or digits made a date or legend that contained odd shaped combinations.Wouldn't the whole coin be with the same varience???.If all coins after 1990 had the minting process changed to reduce Doubled Die errors. How do we get a 1995 doubled die.Would it not be machine Doubling?I am a tad confused! KIP

 

To really find out about that coin contact coppercoins.com. The guy there has written two books on just Lincoln Cents and has thousands of photos of them.