Thanks everyone. But no one is telling me what that raised shelf is between the "T & A" is in States is.
The top bar of the "T" on the right side goes all the way across the top of the "A".
That is something that can't be from the coin getting smashed, scraped, thrown out a 100 story window, etc
Where in nature does anything getting smashed produce a straight edge and a straight line?
Also, the raised shelf clearly depicts extra metal in a place it should not be.
It's not coming from the rim, because the rim has not lost any metal.
The only way that could be post mint damage that I can tell, is if someone soldered a piece of metal to it, which there is no evidence of soldering on the coin.
Is it possible that a coin could have both, Post Mint Damage, and, a real Mint Error?
I get all the other stuff us probably
PMD, what what is that raised plateau extended from the "T"
Thank you all for the website study guides, but I have severe dry eyes from a bad military vaccine, and I tearing a retina and blindness spending large amounts of time searching through websites.
If that extra shelf on my coin is a post mint damage, then can someone please give me a brief explanation how an extra shelf or plateau with a "straight edge line" on it get added to a coin by hammering it, or added by machine damage, or some other mechanical means?
Thanks everyone!
