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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'm thinking circulation hit.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm in the Yokozuna camp as well, top of the 5 took a hit.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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@TedError I know what you mean, but the metal of digits and letters are known to shear and dislocate when they take a hit at the right angle. The entire date shows flattening. The 5 should be slightly higher that the other digits, as seen by looking at a 1975 cent with no damage. The flattened top of the 5 shows where the metal was before it was forced down and slightly to the right. I took your image and did a 'side by side' comparison to an image of a MS-68 RD from PCGS Coinfacts. Both coins came from dies prepared from the same master hub used in 1975, with a VERY slight chance of having been struck with the same obverse die. The large difference in thickness, shape and metal location had to come from a hit to the top of the 5, in my opinion. Click the picture for a larger image. 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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Moderator
United States
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I'm going to go with Damage, the top of the 5 took a hit, there is also circulation flattening to work with here also.
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Valued Member
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Yokozuna thanks for the good date photo. I am going to have to have my kids do some overlays. There is still something unusual about that 5 and it even looks more obvious with the two photos. Give me some time with the kids:).
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Moderator
United States
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OK I edited your original image to put the top of the 5 back to where it was before it took a hit. Tell me what you think.  |
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New Member
United States
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I have the same "wide 5". I don't believe in coincidences especially with coins. The top of the 5 you can clearly see was pushed on both my and the OP's coins, the circular part is static and the spread on the tail from the first strike is visible as it's own entity, it is not connected to the tail of the later strike. This is a mint error.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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This is definitely damage.   to the CCF! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@ mpoeddie: The bar of the 5 on your coin has clearly been moved as can be seen in the stretching of the metal. The 2nd tail of the 5 that your refer to looks more like a die gouge. If that were a 2nd tail, then it would significantly raise the 5 higher which would be impossible without also raising the other digits of the date. This would give clear separation of all digits and be a very nice doubled die. Would it be impossible for 2 coins going through a mechanism such as a Gumball Machine to have the same type of damage? This is PMD in my opinion. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree with damage/circulation hit here. I have a 1945 with pretty same appearance that I first thought was an error.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
19185 Posts |
Agree. Circulation hit--a near lateral hit--which moved metal.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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To CCF mpoeddie. I'm just seeing damage from circulation. PMD. Not an error coin. Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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to the CCF and  damage. |
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Moderator
United States
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to CCF mpoeddie I think that the hit caused a bit of an optical illusion here. The bottom curve of the 5 is normal, but the top crosslet and the short vertical portion are what moved during the impact, tilting these 2 parts make it look like the entire 5 is rotated. |
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United States
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to the Community, mpoeddie! |
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