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Planet Coloring On Silver Half's ?

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 Posted 11/20/2022  1:06 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add rkennedy1945 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I have been going through my silver coins and finding DD errors and found two with odd colors one yellow and one black coin. Curious if this is post date damage or what? Thanks.
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 Posted 11/20/2022  1:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nick10 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Your coin looks to match number 1 in the list of Dirty Dozen Damages. Even though there is no premium values to these, you might try to find a nice example of each.

1) discoloration - stains from coffee, or environmental damage from being buried, heated, etc.
2) scrapes over much of the coin - damage from sliding on pavement, a parking lot coin
3) coin bent or edges not round - it has been smashed with a hammer
4) coin blank on all or most of one side - someone sanded it down
5) mirrored lettering - a vise job, a coin squeezed against another in a vise
6) rough, pebbly surfaces - coin that received an acid bath
7) smooth rims, smaller diameter - has been trapped rolling inside a dryer, a " Dryer Coin"
8) clear mounds on coin - glue that has dried transparently
9) small indentations in the shape of the letter D - marks left by the impact of the reeded edge of another coin
10) large blisters - coin exposed to high heat, such as in a campfire
11) shapes, often letters or numbers, not indented or raised - Pareidolia (like animal shapes in a cloud)
12) a circular scrape just inside the rim - " Ring of Death" caused by a coin rolling machine

Don't despair! Error coins remain ready to find from circulation, but they are outnumbered by unusual looking coins that merely have been damaged. If you can imagine a way to change an undamaged coin into one like you see, that's probably exactly what happened to it. Changes to a coin after it leaves the mint's striking chamber are considered post mint damage, or PMD, and have no premium value.

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Sounds right to me!
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Thanks, Dearborn. I figure putting all the common damages in one list would be helpful to new members, who typically are the people who spot such damages. Searching for a nice example of each of the Dirty Dozen will be educational, and in that process new collectors will find real mint errors as well.
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