I appreciate you guys responding and answering me but I have no idea what any of that means..lol Here's a better angle picture from the front. Can somebody speak to me like I'm a toddler and explain to me.. Should I could hold onto this or no?
I'm no expert but looks interesting to me,that raised metal in the field above his head makes me wonder.but a aftermarket double strike I know nothing about.
Ah sorry. There are times when a coin is accidentally struck a second time by the mint. If the second strike is just on the far outer bit of the coin, then you get a partial image on a "smushed" corner of the coin. Here is a link to an example of that mint error previously posted on this forum:
It seems to me like someone took a normal dime and tried to make it look like a mint error (which would greatly increase the value to a collector of errors).
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I guess I'll look for a coin expert in my area and ask them if this was done on purpose. If you look at it in person it looks like they were trying to put another dime in there too quick and it got caught in a machine I don't know anything about this kind of stuff but I can't even see the year on it it's a 2000 something I don't know what it is. Thank you so much for your help kind of looks like that penny that was linked in the above reply
with what Spence said above. In more plain language, your coin is not a mint error. Someone tried to make it look like it was, but they failed and now your coin is just damaged. They don't make dimes one at a time, its all automation. Find a local coin shop and ask them, and please let us know what they say. Perhaps it looks different in person.
Note the lines across the fields and the edge of the coin? See the incuse areas? That tells me another coin was squeezed in a vise with your coin. A coin that is double struck, doesn't have the incuse mark on the fields. You just see the edge of the die and the step down/gutter that forms the rim. Where the gutter edge you will see a slight rise: On your coin the rim transfer altered the coins surface making a gully between where the transfer coin and your coin was pressed into your coin. PSD.
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Posted 02/01/2020 1:47 pm
to CCF. It looks like 
it looks like damage.
