NOOBIE getting into collecting errors, specifically of pennies, I was directed to this forum and well here ya guys go 1 1

[DandelionDagny]

Don't know the year can read it, can barely make out the 19.. with a magnifying glass. I am new to all this, someone suggested I post this to the forum here. So here goes..

 

I think this penny has mirror brockage with minimal expansion. Another person looking at this said it also may be broadstruck. 

 

What do yall think of my penny?

Edited February 28, 2022 by DandelionDagny
adding a pic of the rim of the coin

[tj96]

WoW!!  I think I'll be watching like you to see what others say.

Edited February 28, 2022 by tj96

[Fenntucky Mike]

Is the design raised or incuse on the distorted image? Looks incuse and mirrored. I'm leaning in-collar, late-stage brockage. Cool find! 

[J P M]

What Mike said or a caped die. The caped die is all stretched out from taking a beating and UNUM is backwards which makes me think caped die. It looks like I can see the outline of Lincoln underneath it. A nice piece. 

[Fenntucky Mike]

On 2/28/2022 at 8:11 AM, J P Mashoke said:

The caped die is all stretched out from taking a beating and UNUM is backwards which makes me think caped die. It looks like I can see the outline of Lincoln underneath it. A nice piece.

I thought caped die at first but went with brochage. A caped die that fell off the anvil and onto the hammer, or clashed and stuck.  Not an error guy, just like trying to figure it out, but too busy at work to investigate further. 

[Coinbuf]

Looks like a struck thru capped die.

[James Zyskowski]

Howdy. Welcome. Please do not hold coins like that , it’s fingernails on a chalkboard. Cotton gloves or cotton tshirt. Very cool find.

Rule 1. Never clean 

2. hold by the edge. 

Its very cool but most of us believe we are caretakers and responsibility for the coin is 1.  

[Just Bob]

I think Mike & Coinbuf have it correct. A newly struck Lincoln cent stuck to the obverse die, creating what is known as a capped die. This means that the surface that would strike the next planchet now had a raised impression of the reverse - the memorial. The first coin struck by this capped die would have had a near perfect incuse impression on one side, and a normal memorial impression on the other side. Each subsequent strike would have caused the cap to expand and thin out, stretching the design. The edges most likely curved around the die face as the coin expanded. After repeated strikes, the cap would have thinned enough to sink slightly into the design on the obverse die - Lincoln's portrait, causing a vaguely head-shaped impression on the coins being struck, called a "ghost image." This is where your coin fits. It was struck through a capped die that had already struck several other coins before it struck yours, which, in coin jargon, is called a brockage. It would probably be a mid- or mid-to-late stage, since one that is truly late stage would actually have all signs of the memorial obliterated, and would show a blurry image of the obverse design.

[Conder101]

Struck through a mid to late stage capped die.

[Keith Dee]

That’s a sweet find😊