1999 P Lincoln Cent Retained Struck Though Or Damage?

Thanks, Spence. There are certain aspects that make me lean towards PSD but it's so clean looking, I'm not sure.

Yokozuna, as I said, this is one of my weaknesses and know little about it but I thought a strike through would be recesses, this is raised and thought that's what the retained part would be, there is something still there. That being said though, the strike should have made it flush? and just displaced the planchet metal?

I would think if this incuse mark would not have a 'wave' of metal if it occurred while being struck. The die would keep the surrounding area unaffected. Now if it happened after it left the mint, I would expect to see some movement of the metal.

Alright, in the last post I made, I think I answered my own question. The fact that it's raised, leads me to believe it happened after the strike of the die, it would be level, if it were a retained strike through or as Yokozuna said, almost so, so the fact that it's raised, makes me believe it happened post strike, PSD.

Yokozuna, I did do the toothpick test, after you told me to, can't believe I did not think to do this before, I amaze myself sometimes.... Nothing happened but I was taught a few years ago, that this does not mean it is not a plating issue, just not a plating bubble, it can be solid and is what I think this is. The shape just threw me off. I added a pic to show after the toothpick. I pressed directly on the "S" and between the "D" and "S" and again between the "S" and "T". Nothing gave.

Dearborn, I'm not quite following your statement but it is not incuse, it is in relief and that's the rub. By the way, I had not congratulated you on your 10,000th post, congrats! Thank you for all of your valuable input, I've always appreciated it.

Wrekkdd, I have enjoyed watching how quickly you have picked up on so much, in a very short time, you are a sharp individual. I have not figured out how to get true color from my scope and it looks even worse if I try to color it after the fact. I think there may me some zinc showing through, very little but I think it's there. Good call though.

It looks like a wire or a clean bristle that was struck onto the coin.

Nice curving, arcing shape to the raised feature, reminiscent of a struck through a rim burr, but raised. Is it possibly a die gouge caused by dropping one die onto another or bumping two dies at a slight angle? I can see a dent or gouge shaped like this being formed if just the arced edge of one die contacts the other.

When striking planchets after this incuse dent on the gouge would leave a raised "welt" (for lack of a better word) on the coin.

Looks to be LEDS to EMDS. Tried to show some flow lines in the pics. Part of LIBERTY was just damaged. Thanks again for heading me in the right direction on this one.