If I didn't know any better, and I certainly don't, I'd say @coinzip pulled off a nice drive by with this thread LOL. "Here, let me drop an odd looking pic on y'all and see what kind of shenanigans I can stir up." Well done, Allan, I say well done!
Look what I found searching for some error coin information this morning - I want to share this image with you
@paddyman98 or anyone else, how can that be a struck through if the image is there from the other side...exactly where it should be and facing the exact direction it should be?
A fragment of previously struck metal lands in on the anvil die with the struck side up, a new planchet is fed in and struck. The fragment could land in any orientation.
is it me though, or do the ods of that fragment, with that part of the image landing in that perfect of orientation have to be astronomical. If that is what happened, that coin has to be more rare than what the phrase "as rare as hens teeth" can conjure in the imagination.
I still say that looks like Roosevelt on the back. If so, how can this be? Cent struck in 1943, three years before they made the Roosevelt dime.
Sirously? It's the virtical flip image of lincoln Not trying to be rude, I just don't see how you can see anything other
@silentnviolent you know, I just realized it's not oriented like I thought, I get it now. I was thinking it was right in line of how the obverse would be aligned.
Nevermind. I just went back to the first picture and can now see the hairline on Lincoln. I didn't see that before because I was looking at the smaller pictures. I guess it is Lincoln.
Really though, all error coins are unique by definition because any anomaly that gets produced identically en masse qualifies it as a variety. So the specifics of an error are rare, yet error coins are not rare on the whole.
I get that, I really do, but for some reason to me this is one is a pinnacle error, I mean the things that had to happen for it to be struck like this is nuts.
