Help with dime sized penny.

This is more than likely a wheat also due to the site I found it at.

 

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I'm thinking that you guys might not understand. Back in the day things were not so exact as they are today. They didn't have computer operated machines. It's ok that you guys don't know, what could've happened during the process of minting. Don't except something that is unordinary as something that you guys have all seen before. It's definately not a dryer coin.

 

Well, enjoy the thread. Send it in to a TPG and let us know how it turned out. I think ANACS is your best bet for acknowledging new and existing Lincoln Cent errors. Over and out.

 

Wow, we have a metal detector guy telling coin guys they don't know how coins are minted! Good luck Donald!

 

Didn't want to be rude, but I wasn't the one to start the whole I don't understand the minting process thing. As it is not rocket science to figure out. I'm not an idiot, and ask a simple question. All I got was "Dryer Coin". I look at this coin and compare it to a whole plethora of dryer coin pics, and can easily see it is not such a coin. Everything about this coin is perfectly cumetrical, as dryer coins are often not. Thanks for your time.

Donald

 

Maybe it's a fake???

 

lets wait and see...

 

'lamination' is not a part of the minting process. Rather, it is a type of error that can occur during minting that results in part of the face of a coin flaking apart due to impurities in alloy. What you have is no lamination error.

 

Thank you

 

I still find it strange, that when a larger die hit your smaller planchet, it left a full round rim on all sides and eliminated many of the legend details. It's magic.

Courtesy of the LostDutchman, from another topic...

 

Perfect example of a error so great it made it out into circulation.

 

Yeah, and easily proves your coin is anything but a minting error.

 

I'm gonna disagree

 

You have the right to be wrong?!?

 

As do you

 

True...good luck.

 

My personal opinion...not a mint error. I cannot think of a single event in the minting process that would result in the coin you found.

Why don't you post it over at lincoln cent resource? They have die variety and error attributors that chime in on almost every thread. Or send it to a TPG. Or do some independent research to find a certified error coin that matches the coin you have to give your argument a little more validity...

 

Good idea! Something to back up an opinion is always good. Otherwise, it just looks like unwavering arrogance.

Here is the closest thing I have, to having the legend completely cut off on the top half of the Lincoln cent. There is zero raised rim present on both obverse and reverse, as it would be all around (360°), if the planchet was smaller and centered.

 

What do you call that 1988 Lincoln, i.e., proper terminology?

 

Well there is only a photo of 1 side, but if the reverse is offset as well, it would be an off-center strike.