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OK, had to remember there was not a line above the Half Cent - just below it, whatever it is, but does look like metal was moved from a hit to it. Seems like the dot in the middle is missing too. Edited by Mark1959
04/25/2018 10:53 pm
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Struck through.
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Thanks Paralyse - that makes he most sense to me ..... are there any 'collectors' of those ?
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If it was struck through debris, it looks as if the debris is retained and the right-hand portion of it shifted south from some contact. Quote:
that is the line above the word, like under "CENT" This coin doesn't have a line above. It does heavily resemble the line below CENT, though, so could it be struck through a dropped grease fill/plug of the lower line? In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
Edited by spru
04/26/2018 01:16 am
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The coin looks fine to me. I'm not sure why some people are calling for it to be returned.
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The coin looks fine to me. I'm not sure why some people are calling for it to be returned. I agree. Whether struck through or damage, the line is not distracting enough for me to dislike the coin. |
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Isn't a struck through mark indented into the coin? This is raised. Is that possible?
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I presume the thinking is that a mass of debris (maybe metal dust generated from the striking process?) accumulated in the recessed line on the reverse die. When the planchette for this coin was struck the accumulated mass stuck to the planchette, creating the raised line on the finished coin. This created a struck-through error in which the foreign material is retained on the coin.
As an error the coin is interesting and desirable. If it were damaged PCGS should have flagged it and it would not be something I would desire for my collection.
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Yeah, definitely a strike through.
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It's scarce but not unheard of. Northern Nevada Coin had a PCGS-slabbed Morgan dollar at a recent show which had an entire 2" length of some sort of wire that fell into the dies and was struck into the coin, where the middle section was still on the coin but the ends had come loose and raised up, leaving a little valley across the coin's fields where the wire was. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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This is post strike damage that should never have been slabbed as a straight grade. It's the result of a cut into the coin creating a raised ridge. At the right hand edge the ridge has become detached and has been shifted downward.
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Looking at how the light is reflecting off of it, it looks like what caused the mark displaced the metal outwards. That means it is a scratch. There are also scrapes above the N in CENT. The color looks extremely wrong to me; it looks cleaned, maybe because it was environmentally damaged.
Everything is going against this coin. It should not have graded. Return it.
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Thanks all ..... I have made my decision
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It appears to be a Cohen-2. The forked line on the reverse above "HALF" is some sort of anomaly: die scratch or PMD? |
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I wouldn't be too quick to return it. The line is raised, and I do not see a scratch large enough that would produce the amount of pushed-up metal that would create such a line.
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