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Here's another new Indian cent error I picked up for my personal collection - 1864-L NGC MS63 BN 10% Off Center and a neat Reverse Struck Thru. I especially love collecting error cents with two or more errors like this one!

This is a beautifully toned 1880 S-1 Indian cent variety from my personal collection. It has a very bold reverse off center die clash and is extremely popular and a widely sought after variety.
Per Rick Snow's Attribution Guide: This is one of the top varieties in the series, and certainly one of the most interesting. The clash marks from the obverse die are seen arcing through to the center of the reverse. How could such a bold off-center clash occur? Initial speculation was that all or most off-center clashed dies are caused when the hammer die (obverse) gets loose and falls in the press, striking against the anvil die.
It is likely that the clash was made prior to the die being hubbed. The article showed how a hardened obverse die could have been hand struck into a softened blank die. Why would anyone do that? One could imagine a worker picking up a blank die and hitting it with a finished die that was known to be the proper hardness.
Clang! He could tell that the blank die was soft enough to be hubbed. He could make a clash mark in this way just using hand strength.
A blank die is machined to have a conical face. If a clash was made on that face, it would only be possible to extend to the center, at the apex of the cone. This is what we see on this variety. The impression of the denticles are visible inside the E in ONE, below the field elevation on the die. The clash is also partially obliterated on either side of the wreath. There was metal movement on the die after the clash was made. This shows that the clash was on the die
prior to hubbing and that it was impressed deeper into the die while being hubbed.

I was recently interviewed by Sebastian Wieschowski for an article that just came out in Coins Weekly magazine on my thoughts about whether discontinuing the U.S. cent will have an impact numismatics. Check it out here:
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Check out this latest Indian cent error I acquired for my personal collection - it's a very dramatic Reverse Planchet Lamination on a 1908-S Indian cent.

Here's another very interesting Indian cent error from my personal collection - as you can see, this 1864 Bronze Indian cent has a strike thru from a fragment of another Indian cent that had already been struck. You can see this piece and many more Flying Eagle and Indian error and non-error cents here on my website: https://thepennylady.com/coin-category/charmys-indian-cents/

Just picked up another very cool error for my personal collection - 1889 Rotated Double Strike PCGS VF20! You can see this and several other amazing Flying Eagle and Indian cent errors and the rest of my personal collection here: https://thepennylady.com/coin-category/charmys-indian-cents/?orderby=title_asc

My Central States (CSNS) Coin Show Report is up! Check it out here: https://thepennylady.com/charmys-2025-central-states.../

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