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199_d Lincoln Penny Is This All PMD?

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 Posted 11/22/2022  10:31 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add 1coiny1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello,
I honestly cannot make out the last number of the date of this 199_ D penny.
I do see lots of PMD, however I'm interested in the damage on the President's face.
Is it all PMD?
Thank you.
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 Posted 11/22/2022  10:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nick10 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Your coin looks to match number 2 in the list of Dirty Dozen Damages. Even though there is no premium value 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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 Posted 11/23/2022  05:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I call those parking lot coins.Road rash.
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All post-strike damage, of a rather egregious nature.
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, PMD. Welcome to the Community.
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to the CCF!
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