Can Anyone Tell Me What Kind Of Error This Is? Rare?

I didn't look through all your photos the first time, when I saw the baby I clicked off of it, but we did have some members here that did go further and saw all the drug pictures and stuff on your site so I have edited your links to show the pictures instead of the link because this is a family forum and we do not allow that type of thing on here and anytime we see links that are not family friendly we remove them as soon as we find them as this was done. Please refrain from doing this again on here

I was given the opportunity to examine this coin and discovered that it's a genuine, and very unusual error. It's a severe die subsidence error (sunken die error). The reverse die caved in, leaving a recess so deep that coin metal couldn't fill it. The presence of this recess caused the entire coin to warp, leaving the obverse face with a shallow, featureless depression. Heavy clash marks on both faces, and two wide radial die cracks on the reverse face, complete a remarkable picture.

I will be writing it up for Coin World.

Thanks for being persistent. Without it, the hobby would have remained ignorant of this exceptional error.

By the way, if anyone finds another dime struck by this die pair, please contact me. It's now at the top of my want list. :) -- Mike

Interesting Mike. I thought for sure PMD because the coin looked like it was dented at one time, then uneven wear set in but, just in the middle?
Cool coin!

I ended up purchasing the coin from Roland and it now graces my research collection. The article comes out in Coin World next week.

In a way, the public has gotten a chance to see many of the highlights of my collection. Many of my prized specimens have appeared in the hundreds of articles I've penned for Errorscope, Coin World, Mint Error News, and other publications.

Great article Mike.

Just got the article in the mail Mike. Thank you for sending it.