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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1535220, member: 66&quot;]yep, hammer or vice job.&nbsp; Put Lincoln memorial cent on a 1940 cent and hit with hammer.&nbsp; in this case they hit off-center and it only impresseed near the edge.</p><p><br /></p><p>If your local coin shops could not identify this NEVER EVER buy any error coins from them.&nbsp; They have no clue what they are doing.&nbsp; Many dealers don&#039;t know errors but for someone representing themselves as a professional to not recognize this should be embarrassing.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Actually the fact that it is not facing the correct way is what tips it off as being a fake error.&nbsp; STATES on the Lincolm Memorial cent is raised and facing the correct way, but when it is forced INTO the wheat cent the impression on the wheat cent is incuse and reversed.&nbsp; If it had somehow been struck with a Lincoln memorial DIE, the die has STATES incuse and reversed, and on the coin it would be raised and facing correctly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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