Is This An Error?

"If it isn't PMD, I think it is deliberate damage."

Huh?

It looks like PMD to me, too. With the demand for errors as of late, it seems that any coin with a mark on it is being offered up as an error on ebay. I think that Buddy was saying that someone may have damaged the coin to try to get more money out of it but the damage looks kind of old to me.

I drop coins like this in my change bowl and spend them. I don't want it and I'm not going to try to sell it to someone else as an error or damaged coin. What the person that gets the coin I spend does with the coin may be to try and sell it as an error, because they have no idea what a real error looks like. You have to learn about how coins are made before you can tell if a coin is a real error.

I think I do okay identifying errors, but after 40 years of collecting them, I still see new error types all the time.

Post Mint Damage. Someone got taken for twenty bucks.

' PMD' and 'deliberate damage' are one in the same. Both describe a coin that was damaged after it was released from the mint.

And yes, that's what this is. There is nothing in the minting process that could make a coin look like that one.