2004 Penny Whats Wrong With Lincoln's Face.

I am no expert but it looks fake to me. But why would anyone fake a penny when a penny is not worth anything. Even in 2004 it was not worth anything. May be someone got creative at the mint and tried to fix a die or something. I don't know. I was looking at the reverse side for problems also. Under high magnification sometimes you can see Lincoln sitting in the chair. Might be worth a look.

Why would his face look like that but his coat looks ok. If it was caught in a washing machine or dryer I would think it would be beat up all around both sides. But this is just his face. Almost like it was intentional. There is a big chunk missing under his eye. Also why are there so many scratches the same direction in the background? Like a grinder was used. Usually this is almost smooth. There a lot of smart people here I am sure it will all be figured out.

The obverse images are really bad. Please take the time to actually look at your images before you upload them

If this is a cell phone picture it may not be the best camera to use close up. If you don't have a good actual camera with a zoom lens for close in shots like for flowers may be you could borrow one from a friend for these pictures. Also I have found that dark backgrounds that do not reflect helps to have a better picture. If there is a reflective surface in the back ground a good camera will see this and will be hard to auto focus giving a blurry picture even though it is close up and looks good in the view finder. I have just bought a special table top camera from Amazon that is designed to take high resolution pictures of coins and down load to my computer. I hope to get better pictures with it. It was not expensive.

One thing for sure is that without better pictures it is hard to tell much of anything. I hope better pictures will become available.

Ok well my phone is a ultra 25 not a low end phone. Is there a way or angle I should use to sbow that this issue with his face is not intwntooal, I have ssnt plenty of pics in on others coins and this communitu has educated me alot and I thank you..if you had yhis penny in your.hand you cam tell it left the mint thiz way, it looks loke it jus came from the mint, super shinet clean no rough edges. I am onky intrested in knowing if this is from the mint or not...i do habe a coin micro scope its ok I will send pic later this evening when I get home.
Thankd again for all the input

Two things wrong here:
1- plating issues common with most zincolns (obverse) stained (reverse)
2- way over pixelated photos.
3- time to move on...

Chase pretty much sums it up on this coin.