Appian24 Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Hello I found this penny and it looked a bit different, wondering if anyone could help me find out if it could be worth something getting looked at thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Coinbuf Posted April 1 Popular Post Share Posted April 1 Vise job, someone took a memorial cent and pressed it into this coin. May have been attempting to create a fake error or perhaps just accidentally. J P M, Sandon and Mike Meenderink 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenstang Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Welcome to the forum We see these quite often on the forum. As Coinbuf stated, just a vise job or sometimes called a garage job. Someone with too much time on their hands. A damaged coin now. Sandon and J P M 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powermad5000 Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Hello and welcome to the forum! I'm not too sure on this coin. On the obverse, it looks like the word UNITED is backward and not incuse and you can faintly see the word CENT near the date and that also does not seem to be incuse. If you pressed a reverse into the obverse with Lincoln's bust, those elements would end up being incused from pressing positive image letters into the surface which would leave behind incuse lettering. Or am I just not seeing it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Bob Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 (edited) The reason the "C" and "E" of "CENT" look normal is because they are upside down. You can tell that the "N" is backwards, though, because that letter doesn't look the same upside down as it does right side up. Hold the reverse of a memorial cent upside down, and then imagine what it would look like if you could see through it from the other side, or imagine what design a piece of clay would show if the coin were pressed into it upside down. It would match the lettering on the OP's coin. Edited April 2 by Just Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J P M Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 It matters not. It cannot be. There would be no Lincoln Memorial reverse die anywhere around the press to make this impression on a 2016 Shield cent. The last Memorial cent was 2008. Sandon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powermad5000 Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Well, that is the last time I try to do the chat board on my phone. Couldn't see the pic so clear. I'm on my laptop now and it didn't take me but a second to see that was a Memorial Cent reverse pressed into it. No more cell chat for me! Just Bob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
