1934 Lincoln Cent - Lamination And ?

I wish I could claim credit for having the foresight to save this back in the day, but I didn't even know it existed until this week.

I saved everything minted before 1940 when I was a kid, and have probably north of 30,000 pre-1940 Lincolns. (To give an example from the dates I've completed searching, I have 1,371 of the 1916-D Lincolns and 221 of the 1911-D Lincolns.) Now you know where my paper route and lawn mowing money went. I'm just now going through them for die varieties and errors. The vast majority of the coins I have are Denver (as you would expect from where I live). I also have a lot of San Francisco cents. Philadelphia coins didn't show up all that often in the Front Range back then.

This coin was simply another 1934 cent in a box. I don't remember noticing any errors back in the day.

Thanks all for the feedback. I appreciate the insight.

So it's a keeper?

Yes it's definitely a keeper in my book

Here we go. It is a Cud

Nice images of the area in question. Any way we can see whole obverse, reverse and the edge area that includes the affected area of wheat stalk to the M in UNUM. Thanks, Doug.

Actually it is a struck through debris. Note on the lower 1/2 of the right wheat ear. You can see where the Piece of debris ended. Some of the debris has peeled off. But when the debris was attached to the coin it was shaped just like the planchet. If it were a lamination, then it would be more in an exact straight direction. The weight should be a bit heavier than a normal coin?
It looks like you could see it over the edge of the coin?

Sounds about right coppergold

@Halo1st

You asked for photos of the obverse, reverse, and edge from UNUM to the raised area. My camera equipment for whole coin pics is down, so all I can attach are cell phone shots of the whole coin. I attempted the edge shots, but again I had to use a cell phone. I hope these are good enough to help.

Here are the obverse and reverse whole coin shots:




And two views of the edge:





Thank you!