Please Help With Error Penny

[Silver_Fox]

Please Help With Error Penny

I found this 1956d wheat penny MDing. The date side looks normal. The wheat side looks like it has a slab of copper on it. It isn’t burnt or melted. The rim is in tact even where the blob is. Any information on this type of error would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

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[Jeffro]

A couple of things may have happened- first, a planchet lamination that has peeled off the coin after it was struck, or second, the die itself had deteriorated to such a degree that the entire section you see missing here was missing from the die.

As I have never seen a "cud" to this degree or anywhere close, I would go with the first, a planchet flaw that has peeled off.

Very nice find!

 

[aa battery]

Thats a 1st for me interesting.....aa

 

[Emperor Findus Cladius]

My guess would be the addition is post mint. You said that there is a slab of copper on it, that means it is raised, so that would take a lamination error out of the equation as it would be recessed from the metal peeling off. If it was on there while being minted then there would be a die impression in the blob. If a huge chunk of the die had fallen off (astronomically unlikely, especially not a layer like that), then we would have heard about the error a long time ago.

 

[Historyhound]

Try chipping at the edges. I will almost guarantee it's a blob of glue. Looks like alot of them I've found over the years that were stuck to a charm and such.

 

[Silver_Fox]

Thanks History Hound for looking. I found it MD ing so I brushed it with a brass brush to get all the builup off. It is not glue, it is copper.

 

[coincollector101]

Ive never seen anything like that its new to me.

Neat!!

CC

 

[whitesid]

that is a "cud" error. pretty much what happened with this one is that when they were stamping the coin the middle of the die chipped out. and the metal filled that gap that was made. that is why it is also raised. i have some, not as good as yours but if i find them ill post you a pic as another example

 

[Silver_Fox]

Please post it Whitesid. Not a bad find for MDing.

 

[Coinkid]

You state the obverse of this coin is normal, which means that this is post mint damage 100%. You see, when you have a die break of this magnitude, the metal of the plancet flows up into the recess, which means there is not enough metal to properly fill the die on the obverse. So you would have noticed substantial weakness on the obverse strike, much as on this coin:

I'm sorry, but it is not an error.

-Paul

 

[jewelerdave]

JB Quickweld maybe? copper gasket glue would be my guess, and if it was sifting around with other pennies of course its going to get a copper rub coating on it.