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1966 Lincoln Memorial Cent Mint Error - Textured Die Dent

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 Posted 10/02/2022  07:41 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ijn1944 to your friends list
Very cool. Perhaps 'lost nickel steps'. Just kidding.
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 Posted 10/02/2022  07:43 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
Very interesting, nice closeup!
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 Posted 10/02/2022  08:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list
A struck through handle would leave an indent and that looks raised.
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 Posted 10/02/2022  09:25 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Petespockets55 to your friends list
Love these "odd" Die events.

I initially thought the same as Coinhi about the columns but it looks as if the anomaly has more lines than a column would have. (Even SMS seem to have only two raised lines in the columns.)

Could it be feeder finger die scrapes?
North to south on the upper reverse is the normal location for it with wheats so it seems like it would be there for memorials as well.
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 Posted 10/02/2022  09:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add kanga to your friends list
IMO it's the result of having been struck from clashed dies.
There's a weaker version at the lower left of the "E".

And look at the space between the "D" and the "S".
Additional evidence.
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 Posted 10/02/2022  10:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list
What on the obverse die looks like that "thing" that would have transferred to the reverse die from a die clash?
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 Posted 10/02/2022  10:41 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Petespockets55 to your friends list
I'm with John1.

Even a counter clash of some columns wouldn't match this anomaly.
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 Posted 10/02/2022  10:48 am  Show Profile   Check tropicalbats's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add tropicalbats to your friends list
Agree that a clash or counter clash would not seem to fit here. Also the detail of the texture just seems more sharp and fine than anything on either side of the coin. I might give Ray a ping and see if he'd be interested in doing a 3D of it as it should look pretty cool with that technique.
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 Posted 10/02/2022  11:42 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list
I feel this was another die glancing dropped onto this die. Thus making the scraping lines we see. The fields are the outside edge of the die, thus the devices are deeper into the die, thus just the fields were affected.
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 Posted 10/02/2022  5:05 pm  Show Profile   Check -makecents-'s eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add -makecents- to your friends list
Very cool looking and would love to see some pics from Ray on this one.
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 Posted 10/03/2022  12:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nick10 to your friends list
there's a hint of the same design between the bottom of the T and E, and it's about as far away from the primary anomaly as the distance between Memorial columns, all of which make me think "hmmm"
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 Posted 10/03/2022  2:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sheldius to your friends list
Very interesting. I had thought what Pete did "Could it be feeder finger die scrapes? " but on Wheat cent I've seen those seem to be more from the north to south directly above the head. New designs seem to have from angle seen here. Any information out there on mint set up in terms of how the feeders were aligned to sweep coins into/out of dies during early memorials minting?
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 Posted 10/03/2022  2:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list
FFD would be at a different angle and raised a lot more:
1966-Lincoln-Memorial-Cent-Mint-Error---Textured-Die-Dent
1966-Lincoln-Memorial-Cent-Mint-Error---Textured-Die-Dent
Lighter FFD:
1966-Lincoln-Memorial-Cent-Mint-Error---Textured-Die-Dent
Note that the area affected is more across the coins design.
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 Posted 10/05/2022  1:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Parnelli917 to your friends list
Looks like the base of the D is slightly intruding on the "column" anomaly.

Nice find, whatever it is!
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