1983 Lincoln Trail Die Found

[wavysteps]

You would think that with the ten obverse doubled dies, the two reverse doubled dies and the two pseudo counter clashes that the 1983 Lincoln cent minted in Philadelphia would be heavily searched. If that is the case, then how did this variety slip by? Or is it the case of it being an unknown and thrown back into the mix?

In either case, this one has now been found and is added to the trail die files as 1983P-1DEO-001TS.







As you can see, the are moderate trail lines from the tops of the letters in LIBERTY, with an offset direction of 320 degrees. This is also carried through to the word TRUST where the R and S have faint trails in the same direction.

Oddly enough, this die has been heavily abraded to remove a die clash (clashes?) and is at best a LDS. I suspect that with an EDS or MDS coin, the trail lines will be stronger.

BJ Neff

[diamond]

Impressive. Another example well before the claimed start of single-squeeze experiments. Which makes me think that it's not a phenomenon exclusive to single-squeeze hubbing, but hubbing in general. Perhaps something about the single-squeeze process that makes it more likely to develop.

There are two bona fide counterclashes among 1983 Lincoln cents. A "pseudo-counterclash" is a form of post-strike damage that occurs when a coin or planchet with a pseudo-brockage (caused by being mashed against other coins), is mashed into another coin or planchet. Pseudo-brockages and pseudo-counterbrockages are not repetitive.

[wavysteps]

Thanks Mike for straightening me out on the counter clash versus the pseudo counter clash. Somewhere I remember hearing that it was called that (pseudo counter clash) and it stuck in my mind.

As to the start of the single squeeze process (at least the experimental part), we may never know for sure since the only reference states( Physical year 1986; Director of the Mint report) that it started prior to Oct of 1985. I might start re-thinking this concept if a copper base Lincoln cent (pre 1982 or even the copper 1982, both at 3.1 grams) can be found. I will be more convinced that trails are in fact cause by the single squeeze hubbing if a Canadian coin is found, post 1979, with trails

BJ Neff

[diamond]

Impressive. Another example well before the claimed start of single-squeeze experiments. Which makes me think that it's not a phenomenon exclusive to single-squeeze hubbing, but hubbing in general. Perhaps something about the single-squeeze process that makes it more likely to develop.

There are two bona fide counterclashes among 1983 Lincoln cents. A "pseudo-counterclash" is a form of post-strike damage that occurs when a coin or planchet with a pseudo-brockage (caused by being mashed against other coins), is mashed into another coin or planchet. Pseudo-brockages and pseudo-counterbrockages are not repetitive.

Sorry, BJ. There was nomenclature confusion on my part. As far as I know, there is no such thing as a pseudo-counterclash. Just pseudo-brockages and pseudo-counterbrockages. The latter two are, again, forms of post-strike mint damage.