Not a wavey!

[JeffH]

The following scan shows a very battered 1966 I found in my noodling.
It looks distinctly "wavey" (more so to the eye than the scan). But, it is NOT a wavey 2!
Check the scan and you can see it has suffered a couple of hits on the bottom stroke of the 2 that have displaced some metal upward almost to the perfect wavey shape.
However the water swirl above is straight, without the corresponding cutout to match the wavey 2 shape. And the down stroke of the 2 does not have the narrowing where it meets the bottom stroke. Compare it with the photo of a genuine wavey 2.

For the assistance of anyone wanting help with identification of this scarce, and desirable, variety.

Jeff
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[purplepennyhunter]

oh gee, roadkill

[JeffH]

oh gee, roadkill

Very likely. The obverse is worse!

Jeff

[trout]

Tell ya what Jeff just send me the coin in the bottom pic, It will help me with the identification of this error (and fill a hole HeHeHe).
The top one looks like it's Mother never loved it anyway:cool:

[Triggersmob]

Not being a variety collector, I didn't know that about the line above the wavy base.
Thanks for enlightening me.

[JeffH]

Hi Trout,
I could send you the first coin to drop in your well. But it has already gone back where it came from.

Jeff