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New Member
United States
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Moderator
 United States
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@coins, this is 100% damage.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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New Member
 United States
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I've only been doing this for two weeks and I'm already going cross eyed
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
19176 Posts |
Yes, a rather extreme example of post-strike damage. The coin didn't leave the striking chamber in that condition.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
21616 Posts |
Coins4grass
Suggest you do some research into how coins are minted
and then you would know that something like this is impossible
to happen when the coins are struck.
It is only an error if it happens during the actual striking of
the coin, anything that happens after that is damage.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4618 Posts |
 to the CCF! You may want to slow down and relax a little. Don't burn yourself out by expecting any coin that looks different to be an error. I read once that mint errors account for only 0.000003% of the coins produced, and most of those are caught before they enter circulation. As suggested, research how the mint produces coins. Look at the error types and match the result to the point in the minting process where something went wrong. It may help to go to a local coin shop and look at what's available. Many errors can be purchased for just a few bucks. Once you have a few errors in your collection, study them and try to figure out what process at the mint caused the anomaly. Keep searching and posting coins when you have questions. We love to see coins and want to help new members build their numismatic knowledge. ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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In gross your eyes? Be careful! to the CCF! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10038 Posts |
If you want to catch a rainbow trout, you need to know what a rainbow trout is. The same with coins. Most odd looking things on coins are just post mint damage ( PMD) Save Yourself time, effort, and disappointment...don't learn the coin hobby backwards.  Looking for random anomalies on coins and hoping they match up to something collectable will take you a lot more time, wasted effort, and disappointment repeatedly finding out you have nothing but post mint damage or useless Machine Doubling, Die Deterioration, etc. Spend some initial time at places like error-ref.com, doubleddie.com, varietyvista.com, conecaonline.org, coppercoins.com etc. to find what actual and collectable coin errors look like. A good way to start is, for instance, separate a bunch of pennies by date. Go to varietyvista.com and, date by date, use the reference there to see what errors are known for that specific coin/mint mark. Look for those specific errors/varieties using the pictures provided. After doing this for awhile you will KNOW what an actual error looks like and not have to waste time on face value and damaged coins. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I call coins with this much damage " lawnmower coins".
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10635 Posts |
Just a beat up post mint damaged coin. Keep searching!  |
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United States
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yes, that is a VERY beat up quarter.
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