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Edited by CoinChat89
11/12/2024 10:06 pm
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Can you depress it with the tip of a wooden toothpick? It might be a plating bubble.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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@Spence - Ahhh I'm scared to poke at any of these coins lol BUT, I will attempt later when I get home. Where would I poke it? Towards one side where it connects to the base of the coin?
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It is good to be afraid of damaging a coin, so that is a healthy reaction. I suggested a wooden toothpick, which shouldn't scratch the coin anything beyond what light circulation has already done to the surface. Pick a spot that seems the most "puffy", for example between the letters L and U. You don't need to scrape back and forth but rather just push on that section to see if it flattens out under moderate pressure.
Added: check back here when you get home as other folks may have differing opinions.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
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I do not think that is a crack, those letters are incused so a scratch goes over the top (note no marks are on letters).
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Pillar of the Community
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Looks like a scratch to me.
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@Oddguy & @Seeker_101 - How can it be a scratch is if it raised? (It is raised)
Edited by CoinChat89
11/12/2024 08:01 am
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that would be a long scratch over top of the incuse EPU.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I'm betting linear plating bubble.
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I agree with it being a scratch, but a plating bubble is not impossible.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Looks more like a scratch to me.
Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
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@ CoinChat: Your lighting is from north-northeast on the coin by the glare. Yet on the mark through the lettering, the top side is dark and the lower side has glare (opposite the rest). That tells me its a scratch. Also, the lettering is incuse so it would not so up there. A crack most likely would show at least a die chip in the lettering.
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Ok, I'm back with an update! @Spence - I did as instructed and there are no changes. It did not depress.  @Everyone - This penny has been driving me crazy and I realized this is one of those eye tricks! If you view the letters as engraved/indented (which they are not) it looks like a scratch. However, if you look at the letters correctly as raised/bold, you see that it is certainly not a scratch. I also took a bunch more pictures with various lighting to make my point (see below). While doing so, I noticed a few things I did not see before. There is another "die crack" (or 2?) almost in the shape of a "V" through the "U-R", another 3rd one from the large center "crack" near the R towards the bottom of the L, and another 4th one from the top right of the "R" and slightly upward. Thoughts?     Edited by CoinChat89
11/12/2024 10:29 pm
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Not a die crack. I think it is PMD. If you use the search box here on CCF you should find more posts about this kind of thing. I think coop explained it more than once in the past. John1  |
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