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<p>[QUOTE="Midas, post: 60012, member: 2761"]It's an error coin where the obverse is clearly double stamped:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.coinfacts.com/small_cents/lincoln_cents/wheat_ear_cents/1955_double_die_cent_obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Instead of scrapping a whole's day production when this error was discovered along with the approach of a hurricane, the Philadelphia mint figured "what the hell"...how many people will will really notice. <I am paraphrasing></p><p><br /></p><p>So these were released into circulation and are now worth a fortune.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Midas, post: 60012, member: 2761"]It's an error coin where the obverse is clearly double stamped: [IMG]http://www.coinfacts.com/small_cents/lincoln_cents/wheat_ear_cents/1955_double_die_cent_obv.jpg[/IMG] Instead of scrapping a whole's day production when this error was discovered along with the approach of a hurricane, the Philadelphia mint figured "what the hell"...how many people will will really notice. <I am paraphrasing> So these were released into circulation and are now worth a fortune.[/QUOTE]
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