1977D Lincoln struck through collar? Rim?

[dinwiddie-migration]

Whats wrong with this penny? In the rim in front of the word LIBERTY the words , or remnants of the words, IN GOD WE TRUST are spelled backwards.

[Grumps]

Weird, but I would say that somehow in the striking process during a second strike, another coin managed to get in between the die on the obverse side with the obverse side of the coin facing down. This impressed the coin above into the one you see in the picture giving the reverse text image and flattened features across the coin. You will also notice there is an impression of a collar along the lower portion of the coin approximately where the coin would have fell. They were about 90% face-to-face with each other when the second strike occured. Just my honest guess.

 

Greg

[NewbieCollector-migration]

i dunno if this is what i think it is... it looks like a second coin was hammered to this coin purposedly and not an error in the striking process... the coins pretty much battered which makes it looked like it had some bad beating... just an opinion though =)

[Grumps]

Agreed it looks like it has taken a beating, but I don't think you would be able to create the impressions on the coin without tremendous pressure and in one strike most likely. The remainder of the battering may have come afterwards. I do believe it was a face-to-face impression of another coin though. That's the only way you could get that type of an impression. But like I said before, it's my opinion and I'm just guessing what might have happened...

 

Greg

[James_OldeTowne]

I think it's simply a case where someone sandwiched two coins together, and hammered them. There were some nutty folks out there trying to make fake brockage errors in years past, and this looks like similar experimentation.

 

James

[dinwiddie-migration]

I don't know...if it were hammered in the lines extending Lincolns coat wouldn't be facing the right direction as if they were extended into the rim, they would be backwards.