Could this be real? This penny has no front picture of Lincoln. On both sides are the back. Please help.
I'mma thinking that one is significant . . . . Is that what they call a "brockage" there @paddyman98 ? Z
I think you've got a good one there James. Your find is 1 out of 10,000 that we've seen . . . . maybe 20,000 . . . . . Z
At first I thought, "naaah, it's gonna be another 'grinder job' that had one side planed off to make a "magician's coin". Then I saw this photo, and went "whoa". Nice!
All the letters are backwards. I just need to tighten my vise a bit more so I can create these errors.
Ding ding ding - we have a winner. Broadstruck - means the coin was struck outside of the collar (or the planchet in the coining chamber prevented the collar from coming up. Signature sign is that it's BIGGER than the standard size http://www.error-ref.com/broadstrikes/ Brockage - means that the planchet was struck by a capped die. Instead of the actual die that is capped, the image on the cap is transferred to the new planchet. http://www.error-ref.com/brockage-counterbrockage_combination_8_ways/ So you have two reverses - one clear, from the actual die and one reversed from the die strike that left an impression on the cap.
Broadstruck struck through a dislodged mid to late stage die cap. (I don't like to use the term brockage except on the early stage. Once the image starts enlarging and distorting I prefer die cap or capped die) In the case of this coin I say a dislodged cap because the enlarged distorted image isn't centered on the coin so it is no longer stuck to the obv die.
