Robertdpg

You should go on cuds on coins.com There are plenty of examples of where the dies failed and yes a bunch with catastrophic failure. I understand they have been a lot of coins faked. I think now people are dismissing actual mint errors because of it. But for some one to say they can't understand how damage could happen at the mint needs to look a known errors from catastrophic dioe failure, caped coins, split dies and many more.

This is a catastrophic die failure. Now stop trying to tell me that you just don't know how damage could happen at the mint. Go to cups on coins Web Site and you will see many examples of coins like this.

This is where it affected his head on the obverce side.

Here is why the letting is not as pronounced in the middle of the reverse it is a catastrophic die failure. It can and does happen more often than you think. People really should look at more already graded error coins.

If you will look up the thread I have already did that with someone who first posted it. Maybe you should read a little of the thread before you judge to much.

If you will look up the thread I have already did that with someone who first posted it. Maybe you should read a little of the thread before you judge to much.

If you will look up the thread I have already did that with someone who first posted it. Maybe you should read a little of the thread before you judge to much.

Now you probably have not look at the pictures very well. The is a 1957D where they were many die cracked coins leading up to it. You can see that the coin has obvious strike throughs on the reverse. You can see where the die fell apart and it made an error coin. What did you think would happen to a coin being struck with thousands of pounds and the die came apart?

My post never said this was a mint error. Now for you guys that know about the 1975D die failure you will be able to see that this one is probably the last die error it made.

No that's not the mjnt error. I just found that one while I was going through my change. I just thought it was nice even though it is in bad shape it was one of the first lincoln pennies ever struck. Can you imagine how many people held that penny over the last over 100 years? The mint error is a 1957D it is tore all to peaces on the back.

I'm sure they are in some kind of regular preventative mattanance because they are under extreme pressure while operating. That still doesn't mean they don't fail. Or we would not have error like die cracks and such would we?

Stick you finger in it I dare you. That little old peace of metal would not have a chance against those dies and you know it. They have worse errors than that when a did fails. Like I said they usually have very good quality control.

I don't know I'm feeling kinda funny I might just send two.

It amazes me how people who clame to know so much about the coin minting process could not even consider that such a failure could happen. That die is slamming shut at hundreds of tons of pressure and probably at once a second. You don't think a little peace of metal would not get torn all to peaces? I tell you what I dare you to stick your finger in it. I bet it will get stamped more than multiple times before you get it out. A little peace of copper or other mixed metals would fair no better. It not that it doesn't happen the mints just have good quality control. They will take almost all of them out but they don't get them all.

Will I look at coins a little differently. Most people think the shiner they took the more they are worth. I like them when they have some ware and not in a case or folder. I can hold that coin and just imagine where it's been. Looks like they are taking a lot of fun out of it running first strikes and they go straight into a protective covering. Take all the misery out of it.

I'll just have to respectful disagree. The did was spitting out errors and I think it finally broke. But it think we have had a very fine conversation though we are not agreeing. I wouldn't take a penny for it.

No ill probably go ahead and send this one in to be graded. It's probably not worth much but I think it's neat to know that was the last coin from those 1952 d error don't you?

Now if you think like that you are never going to find anything. It only makes sense that a die had a catastrophic failure to cause this. Plus it was already know that that die had major issues. It had do many that the coins it messed up on are really not worth that much because there were so many of them. Explain why the lettering on the back is not as pronounced as the rest.. on the obverse it is pushed back exactly where the dies were known to break. You can see where lincolns head is bulging out from were a peace of the die pushed from the back. At the top IN GOD is almost twice the size than the letters in the end of trust. If you look at the work God you can see where the die broke and pushed the obverse side out. But even with all of the damage to the coin it's probably not worth a lot because all the other damage it did to the coins before this. But it's fine to disagree it just a penny.

Maybe if you Google the 1957 D die brakes. They had thousands of them. Probably coming from the same die because they are stamping who knks how many a minute. This one is probably the one they stopped on.

If you look at in God we trust its lettering is almost twice as thick on the G that on the other side. Probably because there was some behind it that caused more pressure on that side.

Looks like they were using their dies longer because they were about to change over.

Yea that's before it broke. If you look where it folded back it's right where your pointing to. Pretty much makes sense they had a bunch of smaller die errors on the 1957 D. Like said this is the one it finally broke on it looks like.

I was just doing some research they had a die break called the bie die break that was on about 1500 pennies. Looks like the other was where it was breaking and this one is where it plum broke.