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Poor ole Abe Lincoln , now the mint spears his image on the cent coins. What's going to happen to him next ? I'm including two photos of die gouge coins I recovered from my boxes of coins. I keep every Lincoln cent I find with the raised die gouges thru Lincolns image and the ones that ends at his image.
The ones thet keeps going thru Lincolns image appears to be harder to find. I read a story somewhere about the die gouge in the speared bison 5 cent coins . The author said a die gouge as large as the speared bison coin seldom ever happens. Well I have lots of die gouge coins in my collection that makes the die gouge on the speared bison look like a baby.
The one I like the most in my collection is probably a Minnessota state quarter that has a big raised die gouge that looks like a torpedo going towards the loon bird.
Then I have two California Quarters that looks comical. On the reverse side of them they have a fairley good size die gouge in the field of the coin that makes it look like John Muir has thrown a club at the condor bird and even below the bird is a few smaller die gouges the looks like the feathers are falling out of the bird. Two of these were all I could ever find and I would love to find some more of them.
The ones thet keeps going thru Lincolns image appears to be harder to find. I read a story somewhere about the die gouge in the speared bison 5 cent coins . The author said a die gouge as large as the speared bison coin seldom ever happens. Well I have lots of die gouge coins in my collection that makes the die gouge on the speared bison look like a baby.
The one I like the most in my collection is probably a Minnessota state quarter that has a big raised die gouge that looks like a torpedo going towards the loon bird.
Then I have two California Quarters that looks comical. On the reverse side of them they have a fairley good size die gouge in the field of the coin that makes it look like John Muir has thrown a club at the condor bird and even below the bird is a few smaller die gouges the looks like the feathers are falling out of the bird. Two of these were all I could ever find and I would love to find some more of them.