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@CP, first welcome to CCF. Second, when I crop, enlarge, and enhance this area, it looks like several letters of LIBERTY (including the T) are damaged.  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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first, thank you for taking a look at my coin as well as for the warm welcome. I was worried I would accidentally post in the wrong forum or mislabel my post so please let me know if I did something wrong or if there's a format I should stick to when posting.
I'm a total rookie so I assumed this coin would be the result of damage but I'm just starting to catch the coin bug so I got a little excited when I finally saw something a little out of the ordinary but I figured there was a good chance it was just damage based simply on the odds of actually finding an error coin so easily. I do hope to bug y'all some more in the future as I keep eyeballing all the change that I get.
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thank you. I knew I was finally starting to nerd out on coins because I was super excited to find a 'P' mint quarter. I live on the west coast and it's the first non-'D' coin I've found since I began paying attention so unfortunately for the rest of you, you'll never ever see this busted-ass dirty coin anywhere again because it's going to live in a little plastic bag in my room forever.
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it's going to live in a little plastic bag in my room forever. The opportunity cost of ownership is low, so by all means keep it! "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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To the Forum. @ cheeto*pendejo*(= pubic hair.)  |
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*pendejo*(= pubic hair.) i'll have to look into it but I've heard that before, just couldn't verify it cause I couldn't find consensus from spanish speaking people. my name is a reference to 'Idiocracy' so I wouldn't doubt that it likely translates to a dumb/funny term. |
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I wondered if you have a clash on the obverse and could find the overlay. Made a new one and later found the old one, dumped it and kept this one:    Doesn't look like a match on the area of the nose to the jaw. Edited by coop
03/23/2020 7:33 pm
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I wondered if you have a clash on the obverse and could find the overlay. Made a new one and later found the old one, dumped it and kept this one i'll try and get a better picture but I'm inclined to believe those who say it was damage because it appears over several letters. I ordered one of those cheap usb microscopes and I plan to go over everything with that but I'm thinking about trying out a few of the phones I have at my disposal in the meantime and if I can get a better photo of both sides i'll share it. |
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An incuse mark on a coin is 99% of the time, damage to the coin. Only 1% of the time it is a mint error. While there are a lot of different errors, damage is mostly the cause that altered coins. Here is a site that covers these mint errors: http://www.error-ref.com/It will probably take a month of reading just to scratch the surface of what is there. But well worth the read. |
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Quote:Here is a site that covers these mint errors: http://www.error-ref.com/ thanks, great site. that will definitely come in handy. |
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An incuse mark on a coin is 99% of the time, damage to the coin. by "incuse mark" you're referring to something on the flat part of the coin? this is a totally new term to me and from what I seem to understand. incuse refers to the parts that are carved into the coin as opposed to a relief which is raised? i tried googling it but every use of 'incuse mark' I found seemed to use the word to define itself. |
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Edited by coop
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Posted 03/23/2020 06:53 am
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