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Can you post an image of the whole coin, maybe beside a dime? What is the size and thickness?
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Rest in Peace
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Just damaged most likely. Here's a real cent stamped on a dime. I see just a garage job with a hammer. The silver color is the zinc core showing thru.  This is what is known as a "mint assisted error". It can ONLY happen if a mint employee tosses a dime or blank planchet of the smaller size in the hopper feed for the machine press. You cannot have any thing larger than the die that stamps it. Edited by Crazyb0
11/01/2017 01:33 am
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Looks like a rather interesting shed job to me. An LMC pressed between two Roosies. Most of the LMC design has survived. Would like to see pictures of the whole coin, to get a better idea of the underlying design. A keeper, nevertheless. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree on damage. The bluish corrosion is zinc-rot (oxide).
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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It's definitely damage but, I would be interested to see full coin pics.  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Pillar of the Community
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It may have been run over by a truck hauling dimes.  When searching for errors, think to yourself about how it could have happened? Can anything in the minting process cause a coin to look like this? Does a coin looked smashed out of shape, like what would happen if it were smashed after it was minted? Thinking this way can help point you in the right direction as to a mint error or just damage. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Just damage, agree.  to the CCF! |
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Bedrock of the Community
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OP coin is just damage Quote:
This is what is known as a "mint assisted error". It can ONLY happen if a mint employee tosses a dime or blank planchet of the smaller size in the hopper feed for the machine press. No it can also result from a dime being stuck in a tote bin that is then later used for cent planchets. The dime gets dislodged, mixes with the cent planchets, then fed into the press and struck as a cent. It requires no assistance from a mint employee. An employee COULD do it, but it can also happen on its own. |
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Posted 11/01/2017 01:29 am
