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New Member
United States
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Any thoughts on what happened to this Lincoln Cent. I'm thinking it had a piece of another cent hung up in it.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1944 Posts |
it could be a " Cud" on the reverse. I am clearly not an authority on the subject, but is just a guess. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3640 Posts |
Jeesh, What a combination there. A lamination issue, Cud, and struck through something. Tough to replicate that damage as PMDBet that was the last coin that die saw. |
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United States
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It actually is only damage.
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Canada
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coppercoins, I don't know anything about error coins, but to me that looks like a ' Cud' on the reverse and, on the obverse looks like a lamination peel. Could you explain why you think it's only damage? Thanks |
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United States
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I don't think it's only damage. I know it's only damage. The dead giveaways are: 1. the imprint of grit all over the coin that looks like gravel or sand. 2. the damage is completely inconsistent with any sort of mint error. 3. The heavy damage all around the so-called " Cud" kinda gives away the fact that this is merely folded over metal, not a Cud. 4. although there is some lamination on the coin, this is normal for the period. The lamination was further affected by the damage. 5. over 35 years experience looking through millions of coins tells me so. This coin was beat to death with a hammer, folded over, then beat some more. It is not an error of any kind. With #5 - not trying to be crass or a smarta$$ - but it's true. Get a couple million coins behind you and you'll know the instant you spot damage every time. |
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It actually is only damage. Damage from what, damage don't add copper to a coin. The top of the coin is damaged because of all the extra copper stamped on it, the coin also weighs almost 25% more than a normal copper cent.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7629 Posts |
Solder...arc welder....something - there are a hundred thousand different things that could alter a coin. If you want to know exactly what caused it and why you would have to go to the person who did it. But this was not done at the mint. That coin is not an error.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1256 Posts |
For the date/mint, that's just wrong! Should be punishable in some states.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1547 Posts |
Yeah, that's a custom job. Looks like it was dipped in Ketchup, too, poor little thing.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7629 Posts |
Yeah, I didn't add in the part that it looks like it was cleaned with Comet. I figured that part was easy to tell.
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United States
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I don't know how anyone could say that coin was dipped in ketchup. Its clearly salsa.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
659 Posts |
no, it was dipped in hydrochloric acid  |
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United States
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Thats what happened to it back in '29 when the stock market crashed.
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601 Posts |
How does a damaged coin garner 15 responses? Really, why? Does anyone think that the site administrators could start a forum specifically for PMD? I do acknowledge that it's a highly popular subject, the popularity of it's posts doesn't lie. But I don't feel these have much pertinence to Errors or Die Varieties. Would it be possible, once a coin is recognized as damaged and not an error, to move the thread to the PMD forum? That way all the PMD junkies could get their fix and a higher ratio of threads in this section of the forum could have applications in the E/V world. I think it's a Win/Win!     |
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Posted 03/30/2011 6:15 pm
PMD! 
