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This 2001 D Lincoln Cent

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 Posted 09/25/2025  6:32 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Dough101 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
The obverse got hit, but the back looks normal. What did you do to it?
Double die dates, mint mark, and it appears to have another element on the coin? I got this gem from the bank
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 Posted 09/25/2025  6:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dough101 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Does it look like there are leaves and flowers on the obverse?
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 Posted 09/25/2025  6:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It's a horribly damaged cent. If it was me, I'd just toss it back into the pile. It's a spender.
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 Posted 09/25/2025  9:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ijn1944 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, rather extensive, vicious post-strike damage. The coin didn't leave the striking chamber looking like that.
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 Posted 09/26/2025  01:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marv65 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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and it appears to have another element on the coin?


Well I see 2 elements: Copper (29 Cu) and Zinc (30 Zn) but I think the other element is "Gravel" ( Walmart parking lot).
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It's a horribly damaged cent. Spend it before it rots away.
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 Posted 09/26/2025  10:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dough101 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I forgot to post the back of this gem.

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I am guessing you are using social media and ebay to try to identify error coins.

On ebay there are 22,000 listings today for "error coin." Yet the hobby trusted, legitimate auction site fro coins, HA.com has archived just over 9,000 in their records (https://www.ha.com/c/search/results...de=archive).

Yours is simple damage. It can easily be replicated in a garage with a metal file. Nothing in the minting process can make something that looks like this.

The way the mint makes coining dies it is physically impossible for extra design elements to be made, at the mint, on a coin. So any you think you see are post mint damage or Pareidolia.

Until you understand minting and die making, like the majority of people DO NOT who post on ebay and social media, you will not understnad that almost all odd looking coins you will ever find are post mint damage.

It is essential for newbies wanting to discern real errors from the untold millions of damaged coins they will encounter to know the minting and die making process.


Here is how to see this for yourself.
Damaged coins often have people wondering if they are valuable error coins. To escape being fooled by simple damage, a person need, at a minimum, to know the minting and die making processes. :D
The coin minting process:
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How coin dies are made/used:

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People let's not be so serious......poster said he "got this gem from the bank ".......Sarcasm...people.

Dough are you thinking about having it graded?.......
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said he "got this gem from the bank

But he didn't say which bank........

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