This is and I repeat, not my coin. I saw this Lincoln cent on another site and thought it was pretty cool. Can anyone figure out what is going on with this coin? Smarty pants award given to the one who has it correct. Thanks for reading and replying!
Hey! Thanks for replying. Have you ever seen one like this before? Would you call this an early stage die cap flip over strike through as another expert has said on the other site? Sorry , just trying to figure this out.
Early stage yes. Flip over? No It's very simple.. Imagine a previously struck planchet somehow getting stuck to the Die and then it starts striking other blank planchets. The coins reverse would start acting as the new die. That's why you see the image of the Lincoln Memorial on the Obverse of that cent. There may be a bit more going on so hopefully others will chime in.
I pulled a couple die capped nickels CRH a few years ago. As I plan to sell off many of my stuff within a couple years, should they attributed/slabbed? Or would that even matter to members here on BST?
I would think having it slabbed would increase the chances of selling, and at a higher price than raw. How about starting your own thread on this?
This is a counterbrockage/clashed cap strike -- the most common of the eight types of brockage/counterbockage errors (still rare, though). A die cap that was generating mid-stage counterbrockages collided directly with the reverse die when a planchet failed to be fed into the striking chamber. The working face of the die cap picked up an incomplete, raised, die-struck reverse design that overlay the incuse obverse design originally present on the die cap's working face. The next coin struck after that (the one in the photo) features an expanded, raised, counterbrockage version of the obverse design and an unexpanded, incuse version of the reverse design (a secondary brockage).
