First of all,,,, thanks guys for the input from my junk jar find.... a few lamination errors,, what looked to be a silver cent stamped on a dime plantchet, ( Have sent to anacs so will let ya'll know). Also have a 1943 that is very blackened but date reads 19 3. The 4 is totally missing but the color of the coin gives it away. Anyone interested in seeing this one??? Actually my question is of another 43 that was in the jar. This one appears to have a "etching type mark", almost completely around Lincolns portrait. Kind of disappears toward the lower back of his head but real prominent on his front side. Kind of looks like some-one drew or traced around him. Anyone seen anything like this from the mint or is it just some wise guy doodleing????
Neat...I have seen a few 11 cent coins....was it a clad planchet??...since you said silver cent maybe that means you think it is on a silver planchet...if so I would think that would be even rarer... Speedy
Nah Speedy... it wasn't clad. Appeared to be silver but did not do specific gravity test. Did send to Anacs to authenticate just a few days ago. Anyways any input on this 43's pix.
WOW---hope it comes back A OK...that would be something! I don't know much about errors but I would say machine doubling on this cent... Speedy
I dunno.... I have a few MDD cents in my own collection, and this doesn't quite look like that. It does look like post-mint damage, where somebody was being funny with a pocketknife or other implement to etch a line around the portrait.
I looked at the one in my type set and it looks similar to yours. I think it has something to do with the steel planchets being struck with steel dies. Charlie
Charlie's absolutely right! I looked at 5 of my own, from different mints, and all of them show the same signs of this "etching" that yours does! It's gotta have to do with the dies, and that'd mean it isn't an error of any sorts, since it appears on all of them.
I'm guessing b/c the steel planchet is much harder than copper, it might cause the dies to "chatter" a bit when the coin was struck.
I think it's called "reducing lathe doubling" or something similar. It is said to occur in the production of a master hub. If so, then it would affect many different dies.
