1981 Lincoln Error Double struck with Dates on Coin and Error

Hello CT. I came across this little mutant in my collection and wanted to post it for some feedback. Awesome coin . It's dated on both sides with full dates. You couldn't cut it any closer on the error date. So what do you all think ?

Cheers
Eric The Red

 

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its a double strike error and it has the dates even, nice.

 

If only you could find these undergroundpaddyman?

 

This one is confusing me. With the rim included I guess I don't see how this happened? I don't have any new info but idk.. I don't do errors much, probably for the better!

 

Very nice! A great piece to have in your collection.

 

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super cool error.

 

Another nice one Red.

 

Awesome double date coin!

 

@Eric the Red Those are some nice lots you're finding. Very interesting specimens in there. I know I'm enjoying seeing your finds.

 

There will be members with more precise answers, and I'm professing this to be correct, but my assumption on these is that the coin was minted, then didn't fully discharge, and the second pressing grabbed the edge as it went down. That's why this has a "step" or ledge where the two meet.

 

Well, I'm looking at the obverse of the centered strike. Why do we have no design elements? INstead we see Liberty stretched out.

 

Here's what i see happened to the coin @Evan Saltis -

First strike was successful, and that's most of what we see; a mostly complete obverse and reverse.

Coin was ejected, but flipped over, and came to rest hanging over the striking chamber.

Next planchet was put into the chamber, and the die struck. In the downward motion, the obverse die grabbed the edge of coin #1, and rather then getting clipped/sheared off, a portion of that coin (what you are referring to) made it to the chamber, was stretched by the die, and was struck with the obverse die, and smashed into the newly inserted planchet on the other side.

My guess is somewhere out there is a sister coin, with the date missing.

 

That was an amazing breakdown of the minting process! Where you working at the Mint that day
Thanks for posting.

 

If I was, it wouldn't have happened!!!