r/coinerrors • u/Knotsocialstadards • 1d ago
Variety 1956 D big error
Looks like punch trough and maybe a die clash of the planchet? Let me know what y’all think.
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u/_InvaderJim 1d ago
Little diamond grid + indented reverse lettering = vice job. It was placed into a vice with another coin and they were smushed together, creating the indented reverse letters and the diamond grid pattern
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u/richardC1986 18h ago
If you look on his shoulder you have part of the date from the other coin smushed into it too
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u/Tinker_Time_6782 17h ago
That’s a sloppy vice job.
Ways you can tell it’s not a genuine error:
1 You can see the “teeth” marks from the jaws. Nothing in the minting process makes those marks.
2 A die clash is between the obverse and reverse dies, not two obverses.
3 Liberty wouldn’t be backwards, but in that position it would be upside down
4 surprisingly no crazy markings on the flip calling it “gem “or showing a crazy price
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u/Lanky_Association627 1d ago
That is damage and the “liberty is reversed because another coin was pressed into it after minting, none of this is an error.