19* Lincoln Memorial Cent From Coin Roll, Error Or Post Damage

Harshly damaged, likely with a chisel or wire cutters.

Ouch, just damage from a cutter of some sort.

Horribly damaged coin. I'm not even sure if it can be spent at this point.




Correct! Don't second guess your knowledge on these obvious damaged coins

Just PMD. It's been heavily damaged.

"IN" Looks like a vise job to me along with other damage, another original work of art

Agree with above, Damaged Cent.

I'll wager some speculations! Pareidolia is a powerful thing. Considering this coin appears attempted to be cut, perhaps those are grooves from a set of textured vise jaws. Possibly it is an artifact of some kind of pliers or vise grips

Maybe it's actually a word from a set of stamped vise jaws. Maybe a kid was in his dad's machine shop and tried to hold it with a stamping fixture for the cut attempt. Possibly somoene crushing something together against it that was harder than copper but with a raised "made in America" and all we have evidence for is the "IN." Maybe I'm completely wrong and the penny was stuck under the metal edge of an industrial metal door sill and got driven over by a forklift or pallet jack a couple times before someone put it in their pocket.

--the possibilities are endless! Whatever the case, the mechanical forces were not strong enough to cut the coin but strong enough to create the indentations. It may be marks of interest aren't actually a word but we perceive it as such because our brains love to puzzle things out.

It should be noted that the forum has seen many cases of lettering mashed into a coin where they don't belong, it's PMD and not a minting error.