LSC D 2018 Broken Planchet? Broken Die? Out Of Loomis Roll

Also the reverse was unaffected except light streaking... It was fully struck making me think something other than
struck through

I do not think strike through because
the surface texture of the affected area does not suggest this.

The cause of lamination failures are often the result of a metal impurity being rolled into the metal strip (before blanking).
In this case, a droplet of oil may have been the sort of impurity that would be the cause of what we see in this case. The oil droplet could have been rolled out and had affected quite a large area of blanking strip.

We need to wait for better pics,front and back and a weight. I think the zinc core is pure zinc,so how could it have a LAM before copper plating. I was leaning towards a struck through from the get go,but will wait for better pics.
John1

I cropped, reoriented, and enhanced a portion of the original photo. I marked three ares with different colors. Here is the enhanced photo:



The circled areas point to three different concerns I see with this coin. The red circle at the rim shows some flattening of the rim. The coin isn't mangled, but has been squeezed in this area by something. Clearer photos of the affected area and the full obverse and reverse will be vital.

The yellow circled area shows something either removed from the surface or added to the surface surrounding the curve of the zero in the date. (The original photo is not clear enough to tell which situation exists.) The curve of the zero, however, does not appear to be damaged. IMHO, a strike-through would have damaged the curve of the zero and not wrapped around the curve.

The green circled area shows what appears to be concentric contact marks on the coin. These marks do not have the same orientation as the gouges across Lincoln's face or the two different marks or layers covering the last two digits of the date north toward the motto. I find it interesting that the two linear marks are oriented differently, NNW-ESE at the top and NNE-WSW on the bottom.

One possibility to throw out there would be damage caused during the bulk bagging process. A cent caught in the neck of the bulk bag during the crimping/sealing process could receive both linear surface damage and significant gouges.

Anyway, clearer photos would help.

The weight is 2.5 I'm working on getting a better photo my phone's camera is not the best thank you your replies and knowledge

Petespockets55;
Interesting post, thanks for posting.

JADubya:
To test this we will need to see a full coin photo of both sides.