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*** Edited by Staff to Add Denomination to Title. It's essential to have it in the title. ***This 1942 D penny has me completely lost. I cannot figure out what influenced the markings on the obverse and reverse. The die appears to have skipped along the penny or just went wild on this thing.  
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Bedrock of the Community
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I'm thinking post-strike damage caused by exposure to intensive heat. Let's see what others come in with.
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Moderator
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Yes definitely not a mint error. I agree that we have theorized that this pattern of damage comes from excessive heat before.
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Pillar of the Community
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Could have been next to a Bar B QUE or briefly in a dryer, who knows for sure where but it is heat damaged.
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Bedrock of the Community
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  to the CCF! |
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to the Community! |
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Pillar of the Community
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to CCF. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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, Sjguse! I'm thinking a bad acid trip - can you provide the weight of your coin? Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Pillar of the Community
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Looks like acid damage to me as well.
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Bedrock of the Community
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To CCF! Looks like heat or acid damage. Either way, it's just damage. PMD. Errers and Varietys.
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to the CCF Whatever the cause, it did not leave the mint looking like this. Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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Crazy, Wacky looking PMD. It's a keeper in my book! |
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to the CCF Not heat or acid. This coin was whizzed with a wire wheel in a dermal tool. |
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All I can say is I had a couple old wheat cents removed from a fire pit long ago which looked very, very close to the coin photographed.
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Pillar of the Community
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Heat in a fire would have affected the whole coin.
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Depends on the position of the coin relative to the heat source, and proximity to that source is a variable as well.. I've seen the gamut--full coin, partial coin, one side impacted more than another, etc. I've even seen acid exposure produce something similar (similar, not exact)--did it my self a few times a while back.
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Posted 11/26/2024 07:09 am
