99% of incuse marks on a coin are post strike damage. Only about 1% are a mint error. People love to make a coin look like mint errors, hoping to cash in on the untrained. But knowing that an altered coin is just a face value coin, will keep you a lot safer. Knowing the 1% errors will also help you know what is real and fake.
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