This is an error?

I know I always come on here asking if my coin is an error.. and it always never is. But maybe this one is. I only feel like it is an error because the letters are positioned. But again maybe I'm wrong ..so that's why I am posting here so I can get help on if it is an Error or PMD from people who are knowledgeable to this.

 

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Post Mint Damage.
Please watch this very informational video.

 

Sorry but that’s damaged.

 

Serious error! Someone mistook this for a coin!

 

When you see something like that you should ask yourself "...how could this happen during the minting process?"

 

That coin laid in the road or parking lot for a long time.

 

Garbage disposal or lawn mower perhaps.

 

Lawn mower was my first impression.

 

@Iamleilanianne When you see a coin like this ask yourself two questions.
1) How could this have happened at the mint?
2) What else could have caused this?
Sooner or later you’ll find a real mint error.

 

@Iamleilanianne I just reviewed all of your posts over the last 6 years since you joined Coin Talk and I believe you have been done a disservice. Including yours truly, no member that is visible to me ever offered you this:

Go to error-ref.com. This site will help you learn what real coin errors are. I sincerely apologize for failing to supply this info to you earlier…Spark.

 

It's DEFDAM - Definitely Damaged.

Not a mint error of any kind unfortunately.
I've seen many like yours in my metal detecting finds. The coins are usually beat up my lawn mowers

 

Don't forget those that got messed up from that massive shovel of yours!

 

Odd, I was rolling up my change jar today and ran across this eerily similar one. Kind of interesting how the metal got folded over and smoothed like a bunch of rim cuds. Maybe we'll see it in an error forum again sometime.

 

@Iamleilanianne, I'd like to explain part of the reason a number of members suggested your coin is a lawnmower damaged specimen.

1- The way the rim on both the obv and rev are 'folded over' a bit lends itself to being subjected to the spinning of the mower blade. The metal on metal will damage the coin in that fashion.

2 - The 'patina' of the coin is very indicative of a coin that has been in contact with the ground, soil, grass, etc. If you look at some of the coins @paddyman98 has recovered with his phenomenal metal detecting skills, you'll see the appearance of some of his finds have that same environmental damage (ED), almost like pitting.

If your coin was a parking lot coin, it could have had the same metal movement, but the patina or ED would not look the same. For these reasons I'd be inclined to say your coin was a lawn mower damaged coin.

 

Let's hope not on an auction site either!

 

Rule of thumb, if it looks like it spent time in a garbage disposal, it’s not an error.

 

We don't have one. I wouldn't know about that. ??

 

Lol

 

Oh yea. You think that's funny? My dog once swallowed a quarter. A few days later out came 2 dimes and a Nickel.