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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Haa need better pics but does look like letter are on the forehead...mabi STATES? Die clash?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Or part of STATES....doesn't seem like the right spot tho,I dunno?
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Valued Member
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  I'm gonna try to post a better picture.. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Eva....
"Could it "bleed thru" from one side to the other?" I'm no metallurgist, but I doubt if that could happen.
I'm gonna guess and say that the stain on the front and back might be due to a bad alloy of the metal in that area.
That's my opinion and I'm sticking with it ('till somebody comes up with a better explaination)!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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A stain would be on the surface. If it were an imperfection in the planchet, then it could be through the whole planchet. But this is a stain. Even plated cents can have stains on the plating.  This one had one on the obverse. But the reverse looked nice.  I feel the stain dropped the grade a lot.  |
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Valued Member
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Edited by Eva
12/19/2014 06:18 am
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Eva ,I can tell you want your 1955 Lincoln to be worth something. but in my experience with Lincoln
wheat cents it's not a double die nor a poor mans double die where the last 5 shows an image around the bottom of the number. in 1955 the all the mints (P,D,S) showed minor errors here and there. the grade of EF-40 would be appropriate for your coin. I can see your concern about the B on reverse looking like a 5 , but again just a minor mint error. in my opinion there is no value to this coin.
Tony
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Valued Member
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Thankyou tony :) and awe :(
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Valued Member
United States
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 that's a shame coop... that 1983 coin is a nice find  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The 19 on the date looks like MD (Ejection issue). The reverse on the EPU maybe just coin contact. The first set of images made the coin look a lot better. The last set showed us what it really looks like in hand. I had my hopes up at first for a lot better grade, but the last images shows the coin wear on the obverse. So I'm thinking this is a normal nice circulated cent. Keep looking, there are a lot a varieties just waiting to be found.
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Valued Member
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Valued Member
United States
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Btw.... what does MD mean? Sorry I'm new to all this :/
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Machine Doubling (Damage to the coin during the strike.) I refer to it as machine damaged as nothing is not doubled, but reduced in size by die movement damaging the devices. 
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Amazing example coop  thank you |
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