Lincoln Cent Error Or Damaged?

to the Community!

Your post was moved to the appropriate forum for the proper attention.

Looks like PMD. The coin is now slightly elongated, so probably hammered thin at the edges.

to the CCF and of the obverse. With these pictures it looks like it's been hammered,

Cent is not round, looks like PMD

When people see a crack in a car's windshield, they don't automatically think the car came off of the assembly line that way.

Coins need to be approached in the same common sense way.

Until ebay shyster auctions and clickbait online videos were as ridiculously common as they are, most people didn't let excitement over possibly hitting a jackpot (not saying you specifically are) interfere with seeing coins the same was as they would the windshield mentioned above.

Now it seems everyone is more sensitive to automatically thinking "Rare error coin!" instead of "damaged coin." So we get a LOT of people asking this kind of thing daily.

The reality is almost every odd looking coin is going to be PMD or something inconsequential to the coin hobby.