Last weeks search...

[sniperdude]

Last week's search...

Last week I did penny searching with snee. These are the results

1958
1958D -- 17
1957D -- 13
1956D -- 13
1956
1955D -- 10 (One is described below...)
1955 -- 2
1954D -- 4
1953D -- 5
1953S
1953
1952D -- 5
1951D -- 7
1951
1950 -- 2
1950D -- 3
1949D
1948 -- 3
1948D -- 3
1947S
1947D -- 3
1947
1946 -- 5
1946D -- 5
1945D -- 9
1945 -- 5
1944 -- 9
1944D -- 3
1942S
1942D
1942
1941 -- 2
1940 -- 3
1939
1938
1918

One of the 1956D has some kind of mint error. It looks like a coin on a web page that says it's a broadstrike...but every broadstrike I find on ebay or wherever, it's totally different. I can't find it. This is the picture of it. Lincoln sticks out farther than the rim of it. What kind of error is this?

 

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[Immy]

Re: Last week's search...

Here's the definition from Minting Varieties and Errors 5th Edition by Alan Herbert:

"Centered Broadstrike - A coin struck with the obverse die as the hammer die, above or outside the collar, but which was approximately centered between the dies, showing on the struck coin as its being expanded to a larger than normal diameter, with the rims of approximately equal width around the coin and metal flow distorting the design elements next to the rim..."

Sounds like what you have. Pretty neat find!

 

[Snee]

Re: Last week's search...

None of the centered broadstrikes on ebay look like this. They're all bigger and they look funny. This is the exact same size as a penny and everything....

 

[killerwine]

Re: Last week's search...

There sure are a lot of wheats still out there!