Some One Has A New Hammer.

It has to be PMD. If you notice, the newly impressed design on each of these coins is the "negative" of the other coin which has hit it -- if they had been caught in the minting dies a second time and re-stamped they would have a "positive" design. In other words, these coins show that the newly stamped part is stamped into the coin's surface, whereas on a genuinely re-stamped coin it should stick out. Something else to notice as well: in the first photo, the reverse of the penny has been struck with another reverse of a penny -- impossible if the coin was stuck in the die; it would have been struck with an obverse. As well, the pressure that the minting presses exert would, IMO, cause more damage to a genuinely re-struck coin than these seem to show. I have to agree with the original post and the hammer assessment for PMD.

Thanks pennysaver....That one got by me, thanks for noticing.

PMD can also be seen because the design will be pressed into the other coin instead of raised like a coin that has been struck with dies. So if the extra design is indented into the coin you know it is a hammer job or vise job. I hope this helps the ones that were asking


Edit: I just read down to pennysavers post above and see he pretty much said the same thing I did. Sometimes I do not read every post and if I see someone ask something and if the next 3 or 4 aren't answering them I will go ahead and make a quick reply before I read the whole thread

From my understanding anything that was done to the coin after striking the coin is considered PMD. I guess it really should be called Post Strike Damage instead of Post Mint but that is the term they decided to use instead