2000 Lincoln Memorial Cent Stuck Through Cloth?

If this had been struck through a rag there wouldn't be much if any detail on the coin other than the weave of the rag. This is just an exposure stain...environmental damage.

This was a cloth imprinted on the surface. Not a struck thru. Here is a struck thru cloth dime for comparison.

cc is right on the money. The dime is graded 62 by PCGS and is slabbed as a "no date". I have seen other struck thru cloth's and I have never seen one with a readable date.

Since there appears to be no evidence of indents on the coin's surface, the possibility of this being a struck through is extremely minimal. Even a cloth will impart its texture, in the form of an incused pattern, to the coin's surface when it comes between the die and a planchet.

While the coin shown has a cloth pattern it does not have an incused pattern. Thus, it is a stain on the coin and not a "struck through a foreign object".

BJ Neff

If your confident of your find, spend $40 + ins. & registered mail, and send to PCGS or any TPG. Then you will know for sure.

If you look at the picture of the dime provided, you will see that a piece of cloth will distort the details on the coin.

What happened to your coin is that it was laying on a piece of cloth or it was covered by a piece of cloth after it left the mint. The coin was then stained by a reaction to the cloth. It is nothing more than that.

When you contradict people like CC, it bugs me. When you contradict visual evidence, it bugs me.

You need to spend 20 or 30 years to learn what things are and what they aren't then you can argue with folks like cc and pyrob and others.

This just needed to pointed out , once again, in a nice way.

Since you have probably have never seen a coin that was struck through cloth until you saw the picture in this post, you have nothing in your experience to compare to. You need to learn from this and move on to another topic.

Thanks,
Bill

Here is another 1995 with similar marks that also has the I&B in Liberty very weak and the bottom of the 95 in the date.

Not to bring up this subject again, but there is a superb example of what a struck through cloth should look like in Coppercoins forum, under the heading of "general discussion - error coins".

BJ Neff