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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 759391, member: 16948&quot;]Wiki states it pretty concisely:</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial Narrow">&quot;When a modern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_die" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_die" rel="nofollow">coin die</a> is created, it is struck from a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_making" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_making" rel="nofollow">working hub</a>, which places the incuse image onto the die that will subsequently be used to strike coins. Normally, this requires multiple blows. In 1955, one of the working <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obverse_and_reverse" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obverse_and_reverse" rel="nofollow">obverse</a> dies at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Mint" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Mint" rel="nofollow">Philadelphia Mint</a> was misaligned on the second blow from the working hub, thus resulting in a doubled image. Due to the manner in which this hubbing was carried out, it most noticeably affected the date and inscriptions, with very little doubling visible on the bust of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" rel="nofollow">Lincoln</a>. These doubled features were visible on all of the coins struck from this die. It is estimated that 24,000 of these coins were struck, all during one night shift at the Philadelphia Mint. They were originally found in New England, and many were distributed in cigarette packs in vending machines. The price of the cigarettes was 23 cents per pack, and two pennies were included to even up the price to the quarter required to buy from the machine.&quot;</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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