A MUST SEE ERROR DIME: Any thoughts?

Found this dime while sorting through my change. I would like your opinions on this Error dime. My husband took 16 more photos, if anyone would like to see them, please let me know. We noticed a CENT SHIELD as well as the word CENT on the face of the dime, in addition to an image of what appears to be Lincoln on the reverse.
Girldly

 

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Awesome find! It's a double denomination error, one of the most sought after error types

 

This is not an error, this was damaged outside of the Mint by someone with a vice or maybe a hammer and twelve cents.

 

Should I have this coin graded? And by who?

 

What he said.

 

I detect a little jealousy,maybe?

 

Your find is Post Strike Damage
Not an error coin.
Anytime you see another image incused into the field and reversed especially the date it's was made by squeezing another coin or coins into it. This did not occur at any Mint.

 

Not an error. Post Strike Damage.

 

You have to look on both sides. The softer compression of a dime being struck for a copper penny onto a hard dime.

 

Yes. I did. Not an error Dime.

 

Whoops, if that's the case sorry for the misinformation, looked to be a double denomination to the untrained eye

 

Notice the flat edge on one side and the 2014 year on reverse of dime.

 

No. Not jealous, I was trying to be helpful. If you do a search for "squeeze job" or "vice job" you'll find tons of examples of coins damaged this way on this website. I suggest studying the actual way coins are made.

 

I looked at that. Still not an error Dime.

 

Think through the minting process, there is literally no way this came out of the mint with that strike.

If it was feed into the dime press and had one good strike, and then was feed into the cent press and struck again the cent image would be raised, not incused.

If it was struck by dime press and stayed on the die while a second planchet was feed in, a brockage maker, it would have one side with a good image and one side with a flatter image, but still not different design elements. If it was a brockage, the coin being feed into the press after a coin was stuck on the die, it would have one correct image, and the same image incused on the other side.

So again, before you start getting defensive because you don't like what we are saying, think through the minting process and come up with a reasonable explanation as to how this coin could possible have been made. Share that with us, and we can explain how it is literally impossible for a coin to come from the mint with the characteristics it has, while it is very easy to explain as a regular dime that was squeezed between two cents in a vice.

 

Here's the easy way to show it's fake .
Look at the date on the reverse, if this was real, the date wouldn't be backward .

 

Don't take this personally, but please don't make these types of comments off the cuff. This coin is obviously not a double denomination, so either you did not take the time to think it through, or you don't have the experience to be giving the type of advice you did. You got this woman's hopes up, and now it is that much harder to explain to her what she actually has.

 

I already admitted I am not experienced in errors, I may be relatively new to the hobby but I am wise enough to realize that I shouldn't have rushed to judgment and obviously wouldn't make the same mistake a second time. No need to post that reply, when the more experienced members commented saying it was counterfeit, I could see for myself I was wrong.

 

It's just damage.