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Question for you error collectors
I'm just wondering if this is even possible. I can't imagine a situation
where this could occur. http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-blank-Linco...cmd ZViewItem |
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Question for you error collectors
Almost looks like one half of what used to be a two tailed penny. What
is done is one side is hollowed out to insert the other half. Could be wrong, but that is what it looks like ot me. |
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Question for you error collectors
Either that, or another trick coin where a dime hides inside a
hollowed-out cent. Have seen lots of these over the years. Not a Mint error. Tom DeLorey |
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Question for you error collectors
Yep, part of a magic trick, and if I am not mistaken, the rest of the
trick is in the picture as well. These are usually magnetic and are attracted to a felt covered box that contains a magnet...if that is what I am seeing. |
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Question for you error collectors
On 30 Oct 2005 20:33:20 -0800, "dmzcompute"
wrote: Almost looks like one half of what used to be a two tailed penny. What is done is one side is hollowed out to insert the other half. Could be wrong, but that is what it looks like ot me. I think you're right--it looks like I can see a rim on the "blank" side, so this would be the hollowed out half. take care, Scott |
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Question for you error collectors
This type of error can happen, but from the pictures on the ebay site
this coin does not look like a genuine error. If 2 blanks are fed between the dies at the same time each will have an image on one side and be blank on the other. The problem with the coin in the picture(s) is that the blank side is "perfectly smooth". If this coin were from a 2 blank brockage the blank field would show signs of distortion from metal flow of the image on the opposite side of the blank as well as some effect from the opposite die imparted through the other blank. Also the there would be little or no rim on the blank side. This is not the case with the coin shown in the picture, this coin seems to have a rather deep rim which seems to go along with the previous consensus that this was a hollowed out cent coin. The side of the coin with an image shown in the picture has a "normal" looking border. If this was a 2 blank brockage there would most likely be a consideable "wire rim" or "fin" around the border where the metal flowed around the neck of the die if the 2 pieces were retained in the coining collar when struck, or there would be signs of a broad-strike is the die that struck this side was on the ram die and the piece was not completey in the collar. This coin shows none of these characteristics from what I can see in the photos. Sean Moffatt Operations Manager Hoffman Mint Scott Stevenson wrote: On 30 Oct 2005 20:33:20 -0800, "dmzcompute" wrote: Almost looks like one half of what used to be a two tailed penny. What is done is one side is hollowed out to insert the other half. Could be wrong, but that is what it looks like ot me. I think you're right--it looks like I can see a rim on the "blank" side, so this would be the hollowed out half. take care, Scott |
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