2004 Penny Whats Wrong With Lincoln's Face.

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It has no scratches, no lint from a dryer not ran over by a car?

I am no expert but it looks fake to me. But why would anyone fake a penny when a penny is not worth anything. Even in 2004 it was not worth anything. May be someone got creative at the mint and tried to fix a die or something. I don't know. I was looking at the reverse side for problems also. Under high magnification sometimes you can see Lincoln sitting in the chair. Might be worth a look.

Why would his face look like that but his coat looks ok. If it was caught in a washing machine or dryer I would think it would be beat up all around both sides. But this is just his face. Almost like it was intentional. There is a big chunk missing under his eye. Also why are there so many scratches the same direction in the background? Like a grinder was used. Usually this is almost smooth. There a lot of smart people here I am sure it will all be figured out.

The obverse images are really bad. Please take the time to actually look at your images before you upload them

If this is a cell phone picture it may not be the best camera to use close up. If you don't have a good actual camera with a zoom lens for close in shots like for flowers may be you could borrow one from a friend for these pictures. Also I have found that dark backgrounds that do not reflect helps to have a better picture. If there is a reflective surface in the back ground a good camera will see this and will be hard to auto focus giving a blurry picture even though it is close up and looks good in the view finder. I have just bought a special table top camera from Amazon that is designed to take high resolution pictures of coins and down load to my computer. I hope to get better pictures with it. It was not expensive.

One thing for sure is that without better pictures it is hard to tell much of anything. I hope better pictures will become available.