Your best Wheatie find

[dave in iowa]

whats your best wheatie find, key date or best shape , mines a 1911s .



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[bk]

Here are a few of my favorites.

 

[bk]

I think this is my best one though.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

I got this 1917 in change a few weeks back. I just noticed as the light caught it the right way that thee is a mirror image on the reverse! A Mint error coin!!! This may be my best Wheatie!

According to http://Coinfacts.com a counterbrockage error involves a capped die and a previously struck coin. When a capped die strikes a previously struck coin, the obverse design from that struck coin will be impressed into the cap. The result will be a design where the cap face will be an incuse brockage. When a new blank is struck by this capped die with an incuse brockage image, the obverse will have a raised and spread image from that incuse design of the cap. This brockage impression is known as a counterbrockage.


According to Byers Numismatic Corp, A counterbrockage is a brockage from a brockage and is a very rare Mint Error.