CCF! Welcome back and I have my first penny with some questions! Now it is not a pretty penny by any means and dependent on what kind of knowledge the CCF drops in here will help me determine if it stays and gets cleaned up for better diagnosing or goes in my zincs dump pile. I will be adding a decent post about how I ROLL, hunt that is, at the latest this weekend. Lots of questions and lots of pictures so stay tuned.
Anyways, here are a few shots of an odd 1988-D
LMC with some weird bb like impacts all over both Obverse and Reverse, these all are indented, incuse, if I am using that word correctly. When I first took a closer look at this Coin I believed it to be really bad
PMD. What caught my eye was how weird the D mint mark looked. There are two raised areas around the mint mark, one to the North and another to the South East. I started looking for more odd damage as this seemed to be odd having so many different raised areas and even impact areas, most looking like impacts from a BB gun. I didn't bother circling all the impact craters as there are many but circled odd raised areas for your attention in the 2nd and 4th photos that are just duplicates of 1 and 3 but circled in red are suspect areas labeled "Circled".
P.S. Not all raised or incuse areas of coin are circled, I believe there is another raised area near Lincoln's neck just as his beard starts and also some strangeness near/on his ear but please look around non circled photos to see what you may find as well!
My question is could this be F.O.D. (Foreign Object Damage) as we call it in aviation from some type of metal being present during the strike? Or am I just seeing a lot of
PMD?
These photos are not of the clearest quality, I apologize, as I have not setup my
Tomlov to transfer images yet. I promise I will and will write up how I do it in this ALL or NOTHING journey!
1988-D Obverse:
1988-D Obverse
Circled:
1988-D Reverse:
1988-D Reverse
Circled:
Thank you CCF for stoping in and I look forward to your replies!
Posted 07/06/2025 3:19 pm
with E&V
