I found this tonight going threw a BU roll of 1961Ds. Looks like a lamination defect to me. Whats your thoughts and is there any premium for these if it is? Thanks
wow beat me to it and your fast. I just found a few more just like it in the roll that match. So I figured it was a die chip. At first I thought it was something under the layer, then it hit me these are copper not zinc.
Rockdude is correct. Die chips are pieces that fall out of the die due to weakness in an area of the design. If you look at something that protrudes from the surface of the coin and doesn't obviously show as having come from a weakness in the design, then it's not a die chip. Die chips follow the design - sort of like chipping the edge off a brick. You don't chip a brick in the middle first, it's always an edge.
The indendation in the die that caused the mark on the coin in question did not chip off of an edge of a letter or other design element, it is perfectly straight (which chips never are), and it runs completely through design elements (which chips do not do).
This is a die gouge.
A tool or something else damaged the die, leaving an impression that shows as a resulting hump of one sort or another on the coins.
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