1899 Indian Head with "what in the world happened?"

hello again fellow coin nerds. here is a good old girl so ugly she's cute! it is strange and quite cool at the same time. the lines seem to meet and wrap around the edges. any idea as what in the hell could have caused this? acid would have damaged the overall details and not just the channels in this coin. i am not sure what came first, the channels or the strike?

 

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That is weird...with a die that cracked, I don't know what would hold it together.

 

i know right? i am wondering if the planchet was cold or defective when it was made and therefore weakened and cracked upon having the image pressed onto it?

 

those lines look recessed....or is it an optical illusion...maybe flawed planchet

 

Appears like someone applied a clear coat with a "crackling" additive used to simulate old surfaces on painted objects.

 

Looks like old clear nail polish

 

A survivor of the 1906 earthquake? Seriously, if indeed it is a product of the Mint, the strike would have extruded the features to smoothness, I would imagine. I believe that this occurred later in it's life.

 

i doubt that its nail polish or any thing topical. the lined are definitely etched into the coin like channels.

 

I swear I've seen this before....

 

Is it a struck through error?

 

yes, i posted this a long time ago and the discussion was pretty cool. i figured there would be different and new collectors who can shed some light or give a theory.

 

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/any-ideas-on-this-indian-head-penny.266399/

 

Sure... I don't see any harm in it; just looked very familiar.

 

haha! yeah that's me! a lot of the replies seem to be BS chatter, people trying to be clever and funny. i just wanted more idea as to how this could have happened.

 

i love this site! i have buy a lot of coins lately, pretty much each time i get paid. i will continue to bring them here if i think there might be a error or unusual attribute.

 

They made stuff like this to make furniture that was stripped back into an old piece "instantly"for the tourists to buy....

 

I have seen that before, if my memory serves me.
They said it commonly happens with metal detector finds!

 

Cut to the chase and send it to PCGS! Questions solved!

 

Oh - just thinking the way the coin looks glazed - I collect alot of old pottery and the old glazing, if applied and heated too fast, gets cracked - called crazing lines!

 

Hey crazy, I think you are right! I have seen those lines on old dishes and it is that same sort of thing going, here, though, it must be with the weathering of the planchet.