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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 482336, member: 66&quot;]It is a hammer job, and I agree with Jazz that the reverse DOES show flattening effects.&nbsp; Also since the reverse design is incused and reversed the only thing that could cause it would be being struck by an already struck cent.&nbsp; Now just think about what would have to happen in the press for a coin like this to be created.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obv would have to be the hammer die.</p><p><br /></p><p>A cent would have to be struck and stick to the obv die.</p><p><br /></p><p>an already struck cent would have to be fed into the coining chamber.&nbsp; (Difficult because a struck coin is the same size as the coining chamber and so tends not to drop down into it.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The already struck cent would have to settle down in the chamber and exactly fit into the recess in the reverse die. (Or else there would be doubling showing on the reverse.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Then the capped die comes down and strikes the already struck cent. (At a much greater pressure due to the extra material between the two dies.)</p><p><br /></p><p>BUT!&nbsp; If that did happen. . .</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse would be RAZOR sharp because it would have received two on center strikes with one of them at a much greater pressure than normal.&nbsp; (This coin does not show that.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The entire reverse would show strongly incuse on the obverse.&nbsp; (This one does show the whole reverse I&#039;m surprised to say but not strongly)</p><p><br /></p><p>And those areas of the previously struck cent that are in the field areas of the incused reverse should show some evidence of flattening.&nbsp; (I don&#039;t see that here.)</p><p><br /></p><p>And finally what kills it is that the incuse Lincoln Memorial should be upside down as compared to the obv, and it isn&#039;t.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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