1948 Lincoln Error, "Fat Coin"

Manmade damage done on purpose should not and should never be considered an error coin. How they gain value is just the unnecessary need for something and how people will spend any amount of money for it without the knowledge of how it occured

 

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Paddy, is there anything on the reverse of that coin? If not, how would you theorize they managed that strike at the Mint, with nothing to bolster the planchet? I'm sure you get the thrust of my questions.

 

Not only will larger planchets not fit into smaller coining chambers, they also won't fit through the planchet feeder mechanisms or the feed fingers.

 

True.. Hmmmmm Nothing!

 

This doesn't exactly enhance my opinion of NGC's numismatic cred. Maybe they needed a comeback to the PCGS nail.

 

That is a weak strike on the obverse. I bet they just took the top part of the die (probably old and being retired) and then placed it on a quarter blank on the floor or some flat surface and hit it with a hammer.