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Alright. I got a picture :P  The only difference in the scan is that the numbers are lighter and the background is darker. I turned up the brightness to see it better. The coin is BU, the reverse is perfect. The obverse however, is a different story. It is darker, but you can see the shine through the imprint. The imprint is an October backwards. You can make out OTCO and a few numbers as well as T M S for the days. What do you guys think of this? Thanks! -Ben Edited by HippieOutcast
12/10/2008 10:54 am
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What exactly are you talking about? Is it a counterstamp, something covering the surface, etc? Is it damage or just on the surface? Without pictures and only based on your description, about all I can say is that you have a ruined steel cent and probably no way to fix it. oops, too early in the morning  Edited by biokemist6
12/10/2008 10:30 am
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about all I can say is that you have a ruined steel cent 1934 wouldn't be a steel cent |
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I don't think it would show up on a scan at all. The best way I could describe it would be as if someone darkened the entire obverse, but the dates and letters on the calender were not darkened. And everything is in perfect alignment, so it was not a random thing.
It is not a counter stamp.
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Maybe it was in an envelope or some other container with the printing on it. Maybe the cent was on the bottom of a box that had a calendar printed on it?  |
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The cent spent a long time in contact with a paper that had the calendar printed in it and the copper reacted differently to the paper and the printing ink. This same effect can be seen sometimes on cents that have been closed up in one of the Whitman blue folders for many years. The cents on the last page tone so as to show the printing from the information page that folds in over them.
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Yep, what Conder said!
....oh...and that coin is not BU.
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12/10/2008 1:03 pm
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It is, as I said in the first post, it has been dulled due to the imprint, the reverse is nice and shiny.
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It's likely that someone saved the coin in a current year calendar page. The OCT at the top of the page is relatively apparent. To the observant, you will notice the backward impression of 'SMT' on the next line. This would correlate to Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Beneath the S is a dash. Beneath the M is a 1, and beneath the T is a 2. Next line is a 7, 8, and 9, which support my theory. This would mean the cent was stored in a calendar page for an October that began on a Monday.
October 1934 began on a Monday. Could be coincidence, but the next time October began on a Monday was 1945. I'd bet the page the coin was wrapped in was a 1934 calendar.
Also to say the coin is BU would probably be an inaccuracy, but it could be mint state. BU refers to a shiny red coin, and this one is not shiny red.
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As I said before, the reverse is shiny red, not the obverse.
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Yes, but if onely one side is shiny red, it's no longer BU. Both sides hve to be shiny for the coin to be considered 'BU' in most people's standards. If the coin would grade "Red Brown" it's not BU.
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