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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3103483, member: 80804&quot;]I&#039;m an &quot;ancients guy&quot; and really not all that well-informed about the sorts of things that can go wrong inside modern minting apparatus which can spit out freshly-minted coins faster than spent shells ejecting from a chain-gun. However, a feature of the hand-struck coins with which we deal is that we see all sorts of things that could happen when the task wasn&#039;t mechanized, including strike-throughs with all sorts of debris, all manner of die breaks and cracks, plugged letters and/or parts of the dievices, die clashes, brockages and chain-strikes, etc. I&#039;m not 100% certain here, but it appears as though there is part of an organized pattern impressed in what should be the surface &quot;tops&quot; of the raised features on the reverse - note . I&#039;m wondering if this could be put down to die-clashing. We know there was &quot;something&quot; floating around between the dies which was able to be pressed into the obverse without being retained - and I&#039;m not certain if that can be related to the faint image in the surface of the reverse. The only other thing I can think of is a multiple strike in which part of the collar which usually keeps the edges from spreading too far broke off (or failed to seat in its proper positition) - not sure if the collars here are multi-part and moved in from the sides during the strike or whether the collar is circular and normally recessed in the die but is extended in the moment between the blank being deposited and the top die coming down. Perhaps the coin wasn&#039;t completely cleared from the dies after striking and caught the edge of the collar as it tried to come in for the strike of the next blank. Or possibly a bit of the collar broke off in the original strike and in a &quot;second strike&quot; event caused by the chip of die-edge or collar interfering with the function that normally clears the freshly struck coin and deposits the next blank to be struck, this struck cent did not leave the dies until they had come together a second time and re-opened.</p><p>It&#039;s certainly not clearly matching anything I&#039;ve ever seen on ancient or modern coins before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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