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Bedrock of the Community
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I see only post mint damage ( PMD).  |
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Pillar of the Community
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 Looks like damage from the reeds of another coin. |
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A different view of the face   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Could you please but arrows on what you are seeing?
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Yes that stray mark *does* look like an extra eye @chip. It isn't but it definitely looks that way.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@chip chatters I really recommend slowing down a bit and just reading other posts on the forum to see which coins the community says are legit errors or varieties and which ones aren't. I think you might learn a lot faster that way than just posting every coin you encounter with a minor nick or ding.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I might add, becoming familiar with the minting process helps tremendously as well. Once you see what exactly the mint produces, and HOW the coins are produced, you will be able to spot errors and varieties effortlessly. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Somewhere there is a "How Coins Are Made" forum. Reading it and a few dozen other threads helped me from posting a bunch of other stuff like this. I bet you that you can find a thread about most of the stuff you post.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I was looking for it but I can never find the right thread when I refer to it.
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Valued Member
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Pillar of the Community
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I might add, becoming familiar with the minting process helps tremendously as well. Once you see what exactly the mint produces, and HOW the coins are produced, you will be able to spot errors and varieties effortlessly. Yes, yes, yes! The two most important tools in identifying error coins are experience and an understanding of the minting process. Spatial reasoning skills help too. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The mark is, most likely, a contact mark from the reeded edge of another coin, but could have been caused by anything.
ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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Bedrock of the Community
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Incuse marks on coins are 99% of the are damage. Just 1% of the time a mint error. It it were a die issue, the marks would be raised, not incuse. On incuse devices on a coin, these devices on the die would be raised on the die. Thus Machine Doubling can happen more often because of the slightest move before/during/after the strike can alter the devices, make them wider/taller than normal. These are incuse, damage from circulation. To view them as any pattern is, a different issue:  |
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The mark is, most likely, a contact mark from the reeded edge of another coin with that assesment |
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