About a month ago when I returned to work I was counting my cash drawer like usual when I noticed an odd penny, not the first penny or other coins oddity ive found, but this one has a lite relief on its reverse side, the Lincoln Memorial is barely visible but the obverse is well struct though your can just barely see edges of what would be the memorial on either side of Lincoln's Bust. The Rim/Collar is fully struct but raised high on one half of the obverse, but the rim is almost non existent on the reverse. I did alot of pic searches and came across several pennies that were indentical and other US coins, they were called Uniface Strikes. Took it to a coin dealer and he also said it was a Uniface, but might have been a Struck Through Error, I suspect its worth a little cuz he tried to presuade me to sell it to him for cheap, and kept saying it wasnt anything special, I didnt sell. Uniface errors matched this coin to closely to be anything else in my opinion, and Uniface examples run for about 70 on ebay. If this is a Uniface, is it worth being slabbed, its already in a flip. Pics will hopefully be ok, Ignoire the blue fuzz
If the coin weighs the same as a normal cent then the reverse was struck through a split or rolled-thin planchet. Probably the former. So it is a form of in-collar uniface strike, although one that is less desirable than a coin struck against a planchet of full thickness.
Mike you may be right but no one can know for sure without examining the coin up close and weighing it. This coin also may have split apart after the strike . In this scenario the coin would weigh a little less than a normal cent. either way the op has a nice high grade error coin.
There is little evidence of striations on the reverse face, which would make a split-after-strike error highly unlikely. The finned rim on the obverse face indicates that effective striking pressure was higher than normal and that the aggregate thickness between the dies was greater than a normal planchet.
I'm not going to completely agree with you , only partially agree. It would be a disaster if we totally agreed on something. Maybe we have agreed before but if we did it has skipped my bad memory.LOL ... why don't you get back on the coneca forum so you , me and BJ and some other good folks can argue about coins. It's just no fun when everyone agrees all the time . I saw that BJ has come back and I enjoy what he writes. Troy W. EDIT; Mike do you remember that funky looking cent I showed on here a while back that caused so much confusion ? I'm still 100% sure that it is a real struck thru die cap coin that had the die cap moving out of place between strikes. I had one of the oldest and most knowlegable coin experts out there examine it and he is the one that told me what it was. I would have figured it out by myself but I had forgotten about the coins that are struck thru a loose die cap. I may send this thing to you later on if you would like to see it. It is so unusal , I don't blame the CT folks for declaring it as PMD.
