1983 P Lincoln Cent LMC - DDO Obverse Puzzle - In God We Trust At Rim

Note how all the devices you are seeing as different are closest to the rims? That is called die wear. It happens to all dies as the die ages. It like a senior not having the strength when we was in his twenties. See on the fields how they look muddled? Normally the die would be showing die flow lines at the stage of its life, but it looks like the die a couple hundred thousands of coins ago, when through a die polishing. But if you note under the bust area, you can see what the die flow lines would have looked like if they hadn't been polished off. But they missed that area when they polished. So you have a coin struck from a senior die. Not ready for retirement yet. But soon.

Also Coop going back to another tutorial you gave me on one of my posts, I should not be so focused on the outer parts... look inside I think you said.

We are going through coins that have been in plastic coffee cans in the house for 15 years or so. So my curiosity is that I know that have not recently been to a casino or a bank.

Thanks to you and others (can't emphasize coop how awed I am with your dedication of educational info for us novices, in my career I try to do the same and pay it forward), there are some coins I spend 2 seconds on and some that capture my curiosity.

I am always second guessing myself as a novice. I expect many started that way. I went through about a 100 83 coins today and only one caught my eye. Because I respect the time of the experts like you, I did not post until I thought I saw something unusual. And ebay clutters the mind. I can look up a coin and see it go for $15 and see the same thing in my hand.

And the end of the day, learning keeps the mind alive. This is fun. Thank you for your time I don't take if for granted. Precious.

Error and Varitsy if you were my sister in law I would send you the kiss kiss emojoi (twice is never enough for her) - that is her fave. Cannot thank you enough for the support and encouragement.