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194 Lincoln Wheat Penny Post Mint Damage Or Not

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 Posted 08/03/2021  9:21 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add TippyCanoe to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I could use opinions on this coin. I thought it might be mint damage but I wanted other opinions. Is it PMD?
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 Posted 08/03/2021  9:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add halfamind to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm going to say PMD, but it's hard to tell what's going on, due to shadowing on the photos.
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 Posted 08/03/2021  9:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dearborn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looking at the reverse, I'd have to say that it is a
sandwich coin. (2 planchets). One got struck but not ejected and another one inserted and got smashed in to it.

We really have to have the weight of this item to be sure..

at the bottom, could that be a broad struck?
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08/03/2021 9:52 pm
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 Posted 08/04/2021  08:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JimmyD to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It looks like a Cupped Off-centre Strike.
It is not mint damage or PMD but a nice looking Mint Error.
Nice find.
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 Posted 08/04/2021  09:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Can you give us the weight?
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 Posted 08/04/2021  09:34 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TippyCanoe to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Good morning to all. Thanks for helping with this. Weight is 3.10 g.
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 Posted 08/04/2021  11:21 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jacrispies to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This doesn't look like any major mint error. Also hard to believe this coin evenly circulated for many years if it was a mint error. I'm going to stick with PMD. Better pictures with a few different angles and lightings will help.
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 Posted 08/04/2021  11:27 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sent Mike a note on this one. The reverse has me wondering if it is something we've not seen before? The upper right and lower left. If it were damaged with another coin, why is the strike mostly there on both sides of the coin? Maybe an out of collar/partial collar strike?
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 Posted 08/04/2021  11:43 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TippyCanoe to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Tried to get some different lighting for you.

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 Posted 08/04/2021  11:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mikediamond to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Coop asked me to weigh in on this one. This cent was definitely damaged outside the Mint. The obverse trough and reverse flattening (left side) and the obverse slope, stepped flange, and design cutoff (right side) are effects that cannot occur in a coining press.
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 Posted 08/04/2021  12:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TippyCanoe to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
ty so much!
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 Posted 08/04/2021  2:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Cujohn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Obvious hammer job. Maybe on the end of a pipe?
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 Posted 08/05/2021  8:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Mike. Always nice to know for sure.
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