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1989 Penny - Is This A Die Error, A Planchet Error, Or Something Else?

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 Posted 11/22/2022  3:37 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add ms3 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi All,
I came across this very interesting 1989 penny. There is a crescent-shaped raised area on obverse, beginning slightly under "LIBERTY" making it look like "IIBERTY", stretching to the end of "WE", as shown in photos. I would very much appreciate your input as to what type of error (if any) this might be.
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 Posted 11/22/2022  4:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JimmyD to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The L looks like a partial Grease Filled Die.
The crescent shape is called a Ridge Ring caused by
Die Deterioration. It is not classed as an error.
It also has a heavy fingerprint marking.
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 Posted 11/22/2022  4:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It is a die event called DDD on the single squeeze dies.
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This is the Stage 3 examples. Note the Ridge Ring? That is the first clue. Note the date devices how they are smaller, so it is not a Stage 2,
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but it is past stage 3. The Ridge Ring is forming again.
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On the next polishing the devices will get even smaller and the fields will be affected on the Stage 4 examples.
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These are die events. So they are just die wear. When the die was new, it was a normal die. So there is no premium. The value for this is knowing what it is.
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Yes ridge ring—just means the die that struck this coin was tired.
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At the risk of piling on, that's a classic Ridge Ring.
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Thank you all- very happy to have learned why this coin looks the way it does.
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to the CCF and
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