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Hello! I'm new to the community and just dipping my toes into looking at coins and understanding errors and their origins. I was wondering if someone could help me identify the error on this crossing the Delaware quarter. There's a slightly indented curved line on the back running mostly under and partway through the United States of America text. What do you guys think this might be from? Thanks for any info or help :)  *** Edited by Staff to Add Year / Mintmark / Denomination to Title. It's very important to have in the title. *** |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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That curved feature may have been caused by a coin roll wrapping machine--essentially a nicely curved scratch on the coin's surface. A little difficult to determine for sure given the single image posted.
A closer-in, sharp image of the area in question would help.
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@yel, first welcome to CCF. Second, that doesn't look like a mint error to me. At firsts I thought in might be the Ring of Death, but it might instead be surface staining from another object resting on this one. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Edited by Dearborn
06/07/2024 10:40 pm
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 Photo of the other side and a close up of the mark please. John1  |
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@Yeleli_tilki Please crop your pictures. As mentioned above, the mark is probably from a Coin Wrapping Machine. |
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to the CCF and  ROD. |
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Looks more like a stain than machine damage. John1 |
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New Member
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Got it - too bad! I thought this was my first mint error that I'd found, but I'll have to just keep looking! :D thanks for everyone who commented and welcomed me to the community! I'm already learning new stuff! <3
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to the Community! |
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United States
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Hello again! Out of curiosity, I found a YouTube video discussing valuable penny errors and one of the ones discussed was an incomplete clip. I noticed that the shape of that error is really similar to the one discussed in this post. Don't get me wrong; I agree that what I have is most likely not that. I think it seems more like damage accrued later as a lot of people pointed out, but I was wondering if anyone could elaborate on how to differentiate between the two errors? I'm attaching a freeze frame photo of the penny discussed in the video for reference, but I do not own this material or this penny, just to be clear. Just trying to get better at identifying mint error vs damage accrued later. :) Thanks again for sharing your expertise!  |
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The link John posted is a great resource. A couple of points to differentiate Post Strike Damage from an incomplete clip: -With PSD, I look for a pressure ridge along some portion of the incuse area. A Pressure ridge is sort of like the edge of a crater created by a meteor. The meteor displaces material upon impact and creates a raised area along the edge which is higher than the surrounding field. When this happens to the planchet before it is struck, the strike from the dies compress and flatten this pressure ridge. Hope this helps. Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups.
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