CRAZY NEW 1998 cent error!!?? (Good photos)

I was thinking a pre strike Cracked planchet
Or a folded error. There is no way any type of snips could go almost half way into the coin and not cut completely threw the rim. I have looked up people that cut there coins with snips and it just doesn't look like this.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

No my friend.. it's a damaged cent. Like I said and many others have told you, this was done after it left the mint by a person... Put it aside in a junk box and one day if you get a chance to go to a coin show or a very good coin shop, show it to them. They will tell you the same also.

 

By the way.. yes way! Remember that the rim edge of the coin is upset so when you press down on a cutter such as my trustworthy HUSKY cutter.. the pressure starts at the edge then moves towards the center! I'm done... Finito

 

This is a better train of thought, how could this be made at the mint. The problem with it being a pre-strike error is again, between when the planchet was made and when it was struck what would cause this? I have no idea what a folded error is, but there is no way to fold a circular planchet in thirds like that.

 

I think this is what he is referring to, but as you can see from the link, this does not describe the coin pictured.

http://www.error-ref.com/fold_over_stk_inward/

 

I understand what you are showing with the cutters but why is it filled in almost looks like a weld and as it ends it stops then it starts again

 

If you mean the far right of the image where the damage stops briefly, then continues, that would be due to a gap/nick in whatever cutting device was used to make the line.

The weld is simply smashed/mushed/pushed in copper when the damage was done. There is a ZERO % chance these marks are NOT post-mint-damage, sorry.

 

Bryant, ask yourself this question....

How can this happen during the minting process?

 

Bryant, keep trying. You'll either find one or you'll make a great photographer one day.