Kelflo Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago Coin roll hunting and came across this 1935 wheat cent. Was trying to figure out if this was intentional or a mint error? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coinbuf Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago Damaged after it left the mint, not an error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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powermad5000 Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago Hello and welcome to the forum! You actually have two different things happening on your wheat cent. The first to address being the reverse. The incuse, backwards lettering is an indication of what is known as a vise job in which a second wheat cent was placed with its reverse facing the reverse of this cent and they were pressed together with a bench vise or other similar device to create enough pressure to impart the reverse image onto your coin. The second thing to address is the obverse. This could have been a counterstamp applied after the vise job, or it could have been part of the vise job in which the letters were pressed into the obverse side at the same time the other wheat cent was pressed into the reverse side. Either way, both of these things are considered as damage despite there being collectors of coins with counterstamps. The point being, the coin left the Mint without either of these characteristics present on its surfaces and neither is a mint error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
