Roosevelt' Dime Flaw .

How can it be damaged after being mint, it seems to have extra material printed on it on one side. The "tails" side of it does not have any kind of indentation for the "heads" side to have that extra material in the center of the coin. I would think that if it was indeed damage that there would be signs of damage on both sides of the coin would there not be?

Just PMD. Unless this was the year that Frieza took over planet earth and replaced all the busts on US coins with his own image?

to the CCF!

Understanding how coins are minted explains this easily. Try to find a video on this and you will see there is no way something like your coin could happen during the mint's coining process.

As to extra material "printed" on it: coin planchets are not put together by building up material. Planchets are all stamped from a sheet of metal similar to the way a handheld paper punch works to make small circles punched out of paper.

What your coin seems to show instead is that every place on the coin except the center is worn down with abrasive marks.

This means every part but the center was ground/sanded down on/with some device. The obvious "raised" center was where the abrasive was not being applied, it was the normal height before the surrounding sanding away of the surfaces around it.


Tat center portion could very well have been where the person doing the damage was holding the coin. I can imagine someone could duplicate the looks of this coin by holding it in the center and using a dremel tool with a grinding bit attached. Grind some area away, rotate, grind more, rotate etc.

Why would someone do this? Why not? People do all sorts of strange things when they have time on their hands.



Nope - not in the above scenario.

Coins are not printed, bank notes are printed, coins are struck
Please believe what you are being told by many knowledgeable collectors. It can only be an error or damage.
An error can only occur during the striking of the coin. As there is no way that what you have happened at that time,
the alternative is it is damaged, no matter how it happened.
If you are still insistent that it is an error, you can waste your money and send it off to be graded.
I assure you that it will come back bodybagged.

I just now noticed that the core appears to be showing through above the raised area. More indication that the raised area is not extra metal. Rather,, metal was removed post minting, leaving a raised area.

How and why it was done, no one may ever know, although I agree with what Earle proposed as one possibility. It has been around for over 40 plus years. It has passed through many hands, some directed by sound, nondestructive minds, and others, well...

This coin was held up to a belt sander and spun around. The pivot point was the center of the obverse. The center didn't get sanded down, it stayed the origanal thickness. You can see the inner core of copper. Probably weighs less than 2 grams.