1944 Cent with issues

Sorry if this is a repost, some of my previous attempts at posting today seem to have evaporated. I'd appreciate being clued in as to how that happens if you know. Any way, I see some extra collar and down the back, some extra fore head down to around the nose, something strange above the bow tie, and one strong eye lid with a weaker one for back up.

 

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Re-engraving of the design. Common and not worth a premium.
Keep up the hunt!

 

Do you know the guy that re-engraved it?

It amazes me how you can cipher that from the photo with the slightly off center strike, which would push those features described off a bit. So what do we call this error now?

 

I'm not seeing any indication of an off-center strike. The "error", or for a better term, the anomaly is a product of the mint "retouching the design". Once you go through a lot of wheats, you start to pick up on these things, and they are the subject of many a thread. Here is a link to a more detailed explanation of the anomaly. http://error-ref.com/retouching-of-design-elements.html
Keep up the hunt!

 

Nice link, but not sure how it applies to Abe's collar, the thing under his chin or along his back?

 

Are you talking about the die clash between the chin and necktie? There could be other clash remnants as well, but that's the only one I'm seeing in the photos.

http://maddieclashes.com/ADC-1c-1944-01.html

 

That applies to along his back. The anomaly around the collar appears to be a die clash remnant.
Keep up the hunt!

 

Now that makes cents! I can go with that to explain the neck area stuff. And the photos in that link make me think of the stuff in that other coin, the 1958? along the wheat. Are die clashes worth anything?

 

Depends on the strength of the clash. Minor clashes on common wheats might bring a buck or two.

 

How can a person see a misaligned die or (off center strike) with only one side of the cent. A person would have to see both sides................unless......that person is intimately familiar with that cent as though it were one of his own body parts..

 

I can say that it doesn't look like an off-center strike, because the whole coin is well-centered on the planchet. I don't need to see both sides to know the difference between an off-center strike and a normal strike (misaligned dies are a different story).

I don't claim to know coins intimately, but just a little common sense is enough to let me know that this is most likely not an off-center, and if it is, the amount is so negligible that it might as well be called a normal coin.