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Damaged coin, not an error.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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To CCF!

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Your coin has been damaged post mint. PMD. Not an error coin.
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You can't have reeding on top of the rim.
Damage that has been intentionally done.
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what is the year and mint of this cent? We need to add it to the title for the searchability functions of the Forums.

but, this coin was intentionally damaged

By the way, I fixed your image for you..
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Somebody worked on that coin with shears or tin snips.
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Agree--post strike damage of a 'mechanical' nature.
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Thanks all for your response. Since I am new time this I got so excited with that coin. But this is the only way to learn.
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.. I agree that someone took some sort of tool and designed his own "reeded" cent.
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Ohhhh, there goes Mom's Pinking Shears............

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Looks like pre 1982....don't see any zinc core.
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I would still like to know that the date and mint of this coin is please.

WHY?


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Looks like pre 1982....don't see any zinc core.

That narrows it down to about 23 years -
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Looks like pre 1982....don't see any zinc core.

So we have it narrowed down to 1959 to 1981 and some of 1982 for a date..

the blurry initials are of no use in helping to closing in on the date.
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