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Valued Member
United States
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Hey just wanting to see if someone with a little more experteise on coins could tell me if this is an error coin or just happened after minting.. On the obverse the letters L and I in liberty are faded and can barely see in God..then the reverse same thing with the lettering,and also not sure if that's a crack or what.. Thanks in advance for any info.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
900 Posts |
 You have a poorly struck cent, probably due to Grease Filled Dies. This explains the missing letters in the motto on the obverse. The reverse, on the other hand, seems to have been scraped somehow. It may have spent some time in a parking lot. The mark through the shield looks like someone used a felt tip marker to draw a sword with a smiley face. That's just my interpretation of the artists rendering. Your coin is a spender. |
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Valued Member
 United States
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Thank you for the feedback, one day, one day I will find a good error coin.. I do see the smiley face lol
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Agree, Struck Through Grease, but there was never a mintmark on the coin. The coin was struck at the Philadelphia mint and bore no mintmark. The only year to ever feature one was last year, 2017. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
575 Posts |
to CCF! I agree on the grease strike through and felt tip marker. Keep searching! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1373 Posts |
I agree; the lack of a mintmark means nothing compared to the other problems with this coin. It looks more like a penny you'd find spit out of a CoinStar machine.
Now, if this was dated 1922 instead of 2016, well..........we'd have a pretty great discussion.
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02/12/2018 09:52 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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to the CCF! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
62064 Posts |
What is the weight of this coin? If it is under weight, that might account for the weak strike.
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Valued Member
United States
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Thanks everybody, coop it weighs dead on at 2.5 grams... Thanks again for y'alls time..
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
62064 Posts |
Then it is probably a die that got wiped down on the machine with a cloth and transferred the grease around to almost all the outside devices. Not a keeper. JPU (Just-Plain-Ugly)
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'm thinking a weaker than normal strike. The problem with it being a Grease Fill is the lack of rims. The press when properly set would create a coin with normal features and rims. If the dies get clogged with grease there is actually more material between the dies than normal and the striking pressure is HIGHER. This tends to form well defined rims. This coin has no rims. On a weak strike the out rim area is the last area to strike up, and that seems to describe this coin. |
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