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1953-S RPM Lincoln Cent?

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 Posted 01/05/2019  10:29 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add SparkofThought to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Thanks to the community for helping each time I have a question about Lincoln Cent errors. Is there a trustworthy way of deciding if a mint mark fattening like this is an RPM or post mint damage? If it was clearer, I can see it being one of the RPMs I looked at on varietyvista.com. My goal is to not trash a lot of RPMs just because I don't feel they're clear enough to hold on to.


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 Posted 01/06/2019  01:08 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
That's a coin contact mark on the mint mark. It's Post Strike Damage ( PSD).
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Is there a trustworthy way of deciding if a mint mark fattening like this is an RPM or post mint damage?

Yes. If you think you have found an RPM,try to make a match on one of the web sites to ID RPM's.
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Also note the width of a coin contact mark? On a RPM, the spread is much smaller in size.
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try to make a match on one of the web sites to ID RPM's.



My fave is:

http://www.varietyvista.com/
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 Posted 01/06/2019  10:44 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jlam79 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Coop and Spence for places to find information.
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As I mentioned about the contact mark:
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Also the RPMs will follow the design of the mint mark. On your coin, the affected area is random.
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Ok thank you! I'm wanting to come up with statistics of found errors per date/mint on my hoard of 15,000 wheat pennies.
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Variety Vista for Doubled dies and RPMs for all coins:
http://www.varietyvista.com/index.htm
John Wexlers Die varieties: All denominations of current coinage:
http://www.varietyvista.com/index.htm
Coppercoins Lincoln Cents site:
http://www.coppercoins.com/index.php
Home screen:
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Search indicated by white arrow. Next screen looks like this:
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The sites I use a lot for die varieties.
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