What is this called?

Thanks in advance

 

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Die lamination? Looks like the die lost a piece and it folded back. Weird.

 

PMD - Post Mint Damage

 

So you are saying the metal missing from above got scraped off, and folded back below? If so, there should be evidence on the coin of this under magnification.

My guess might be stupid, but I just thought maybe the same thing in reverse happened on the die.

 

It's a die chip. Very common in the wheat ears.

 

The reverse of a wheat cent.

sheesh.

Buy a Red Book.

 

Thanks buddy.

 

any time

 

Based on color alone, I'd say a steel Wheat Cent.

 

wow, good pick up.

see, that Red Book is worth a fortune

 

Hahaha!! This group is full of comedians.

 

Free help is worth exactly as much as you paid for it. Out of curiosity do you own a pawn shop? I wonder why you have coins but need so much help.

 

A Wheat Cent

 

lets see, #117 posts, and nearly 2 made sense.

 

Don't EVER send me a PM again.

 

Don't EVER comment on one of my posts again.

 

This here + quote feature is pretty neat.

 

Now now.. Can't we all just get along? Jeesh... Too much animosity.

I see Profitman post often where he/she is actively searching for unique coins. We aren't all experts, and need the input of people who are more 'in the know'.

Yours looks like PMD to me to be honest. Maybe if you got real down deep on the image, we could see if that piece is just folded over prior to punching, or if it's just gouged out of the coin.

*** Edit *** After zooming in on your current picture, if you look at the opposite end of the groove (away from the folded metal), you can see a bead. To me, that is displaced metal from where a tool (or object) entered the material. On one side, it lifted a piece of the layer, on the other end, it left the wall of a crater with lifted edges.

Just my opinion.