What is this?????

OK, then it's metal, and you're looking for a way this could have happened in the striking of the planchet. Here's your theory.

Imagine a planchet just sitting there, minding its own business, awaiting the die to strike it. Provided everything is in proper alignment, for the most part that strike is going to be flat and even, as the p.s.i. is going to be uniformly distributed over the planchet. Now, introduce debris, in the form of foreign metal, in that upper-left area on the reverse, that took that strongest strike. Maybe that debris got on and adhered to the planchet when the planchet was punched. Maybe it got there some other way. However it got there, it got there. Now, imagine that die striking that planchet. The first thing it's going to strike is that debris raised off the surface of the planchet. The die is also going to tilt ever so slightly away from that area when it hits it. That's why the strongest strike on the reverse of the planchet proper is in that area of the planchet opposite to the metal, i.e., at the bottom of the planchet. The remainder of the planchet couldn't take the full impact of the strike for the raised debris, that's why the remainder of the planchet is weakly-struck. Now, turn to the obverse. That's, understandably, weakly-struck, too, for the same reason the reverse is weakly-struck, i.e., the foul-up in the p.s.i. for the raised metal on the planchet. And there you have it.

PS: And if you don't believe that theory, I'll make up another one.

 

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If you can't find it, grind it.

 

I don't know, but I think Chapter 1 was pretty good!

Chris

 

This is post-strike damage. The coin was crushed between two plates/objects, one of which had a gap in it. That's why part of the reverse design is unaffected.

 

Thanks for the input, Mike. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what happened.

Chris

 

Vise.

 

How much would you sell this error coin for on e bay?

 

Ok. When you figure out how this happened during the minting process, you let us know. Thanks.

 

Lamination Error imo

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Except this is a zinc cent, and laminations have to do with an improper alloy mix of the copper...that's why you only find them on pre-1982 cents. This coin has been damaged IMO.

 

The coin isn't even round.

 

or ... 82 non zincers ....

 

What does it weigh? That might give a clue.

 

hey guys in post #14 Kirkuleez got it right then Mike Diamond said the same thing and I agree with both of them. It is a simple squeeze job.