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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 266171, member: 66&quot;]Post mint damage, both coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cent was on top of another cent when it was hit hard by something in the area of the date.&nbsp; This caused the TRUS of the underlying cent to be impressed into the word AMERICA.&nbsp; This was the only area impressed because the point of impact was very localized.&nbsp; Notice that the coin is distorted outward in that area, yet the coin show a full and well developed rim all the way around.&nbsp; This indicates that the cent was originally struck in the collar, but the damage outward in the date area and at AMERICA on the reverse means that that impact took place when the previously struck con was NOT in the collar.&nbsp; Hence post mint.&nbsp; Also note that the letters of TRUS are impressed into the coin but it is not a &quot;Piece of a cent&quot; impressed into it.&nbsp; On the other side something did get impressed into the date but it does not seem to be a piece of a coin or die.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>And even if it was you would still have to have another cent on the other side to create the reversed TRUS.&nbsp; To have that all happen in the press you would have to have stacked in the press&nbsp; reverse die, blank planchet (for support and to make sure nothing mars the coin during the error strike), a broken piece of die, the coin in question obverse down, another previously struck cent also obverse down, and the obverse die.&nbsp; That is four pieces that have to get stacked up between the dies between strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of the two ways I&#039;ve described about how it could be made the two cents, an object, and a hammer is much more likely.</p><p><br /></p><p>The weak OF on the reverse is not unusual on Lincoln memorial cents.&nbsp; Get a handful of cents and you will probably find a few.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It can be done.&nbsp; Use an anode of the alloy you want to plate and a plating solution that contains both copper and gold ions in solution.&nbsp; As you plate both copper and gold atoms will come off the anode and the cathode will be plated with both as a solid electrically deposited alloy.&nbsp; You can also use two anodes, one of copper and one gold, and you can control the fineness of the deposited alloy by the strength&nbsp; of the voltage potentials between the anodes and the cathode.&nbsp; Same potential result is 12Kt.&nbsp; Increase the potential on the copper anode you get 10Kt (more coper deposited).&nbsp; Increase the gold anode potential get 14Kt.</p><p><br /></p><p>(actually if the potentials are the same the fineness will be a little less than 12Kt because it takes a little more energy to remove a gold atom from the anode than a copper one, but you see the principle)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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