multiple stamped penny

dirtlooter

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Upvote 12
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Looks like post mint damage too me. :icon_thumleft:
 

Inspector

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That is strange, I don't see any evidence of a heads side either. Nice find
 

Squirrel322

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I agree with the professor. In the first photo you see a negative impression of a back of a penny. Looks like a couple pennies got smashed together.

the first photo also shows the head side with the negative back side stamped into it.
 

Squirrel322

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Heres the orientation of the head side -

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l.cutler

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Not a mint error. It is what is known as a vice job, where two or more coins are squeezed together. A coin can not receive a backwards incuse impression from the die, only from another coin.
 

sprailroad

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I'm thinking "Train Tracks" as well, I have a jar full of "Railroad Money" I picked up over the years on the job.
 

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dirtlooter

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probably man made somehow, just never seen one like it before. most train coins are flattened out quite a bit more from I had seen
 

BC1969

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probably man made somehow, just never seen one like it before. most train coins are flattened out quite a bit more from I had seen

The trick is to glue multiple cents together.
The two in the middle of a stack of six... With some luck will press together at the same thickness as a regular penny, while retaining their shape.
I only know this because I have tracks in my backyard and that makes it too easy to deal with trial and error.
 

A2coins

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It would fit right in on an Bay auction cool find
 

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