Hi everyone, I'm a new member of this forum. I recently found a 99 penny where the image of Lincoln monument is showing through the area around Lincoln's head. Has anyone seen or heard of this? No image available yet. Thanks, PaulM
A strike thru is something that was on the die like a piece of metal that the die struck thru...post a photo...maybe a clashed die... Speedy
Hmm, thanks for the info, I purchased a coin labeled as a strike through, where the reverse of a roosevelt dime is slightly incluse on the obverse. I am guessing this is most likely a clashed die then, and not a strike through?
here is a clashed die i found yesterday, IN GOD WE TRUST, is raised above the rest of the coin an the word IN is not legible, also the GOD has doubling.
joedoedoe, The coin you found does not appear to be a dieclash but rather a MAD (Mis Aligned Die). Die clash lincolns should have some of the charecteristics like the one 2b1ask1 posted above. Also, your coin is very common in 1986 & 1987 lincolns.
i was wondering what that was. I saved a ton of pennys that looked like that. but then i realized they couldnt be worth anything if i was finding them that often.
See that I learn something every day, thanks, and i'll keep on looking that die clash has got to be here somewhere. Now I know why it's called a "MAD".
MAD's occationally are worth a bit to error collectors, but only if they are significant'y misalligned, like 60% or so. For example if you see the "second rim" running through the middle of Lincoln's head.
Hi All, That coin is not the result of a mis-aligned die strike at all. I've seen literally thousands of these. It is something that happens often to the surface of the coin during the striking of our copper-plated zinc cents. The area of metal under the IN GOD WE TRUST seems to rise up a little during the strike causing that effect under the lettering. A misaligned die strike looks like a slight off-center strike but the "off-center" lool is only on one side. Usually the obverse. Have Fun, Bill
This is a form of die deterioration. It usually develops in dies that have been striking zinc cents, but occasionally appears in other years and other denominations. It's quite common among zinc cents. Some material property of zinc must create unusual stresses on the die face.
well lets see, its not a clash, its not misalligned, my question is there a name for this anomaly, its the first for me and i'd like a name for it, and that makes me wonder, do the workers at the mint who see such things all the time use the same lingo as collectors, or is it a good / no-good situation.
I don't know if the Mint has a name for it. Eric Von Klinger of Coin World's Collector's Clearinghouse has given the name "ridge rings" to the effect. As good a name as any, I suppose. But I just refer to it as a form of die deterioration, since that's what it is.
