1990 D Dime

Front looks OK, but the back looks like it spun while it was getting struck. Need help on calling this. Is it worth sending off to grade.

 

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What you have is PMD - Post Mint Damage
This is what is called a Vice Job
Anytime you see an image incused and backwards into a coin.. someone took another coin and pressed it against it with some force creating that look.

 

No damage to the front? The shadowed reversed inprint looks like it's under the strike. It's a good posiblity that you have a mint error.

 

Look at the word DIME.. it is backwards. not an error. This was not the middle coin of a vice job. That's why only one side shows damage.

 

What was protecting this coin from the jaw of the vise?

 

From what I have learned.. Leather!

 

Yes that is what can be used. But as the reversed marking are ON the edge of the reverse without any distortion, this coin would have to have had a collar surounding it. I would say this coin had the reverse imprint applied first and then struck in a normal way. As it looks like the reverse imprint is between the letters as well as on top of them. A vise job will not usualy imprint that deep into a coin without major distortion to the diameter, having done this several time myself.

 

Hi Wayne; Welcome to Coin Talk. Are you able to give a weight for your coin?

 

Would not then the Obverse have evidence of your take?
Why Reversed?
I don't think it's an error.

 

@Wayne M
I'm with Paddy! It is totally impossible for the letters of "DIME" to be struck backwards.

Chris

 

Then it would be imposible to do it in a Vise also. But yet there they are on the back of a coin.

 

Thanks guys for your help on this. Weight is 2.34 . I would think if someone stamped another coin on top, would it not be backwards.

 

That's what we have been stating in our posts. It's clearly backwards.

 

@alurid
@cpm9ball
Could also be a backward image of another Dime on dried glue! Haha

 

I can see that glue would make such a ghost image. Extra weight of .07!
So Wayne is there a spot of glue on the reverse of your coin?
And a point of order, if two coins are put back to back and squeezed the imprint will be backwards,it does not matter if it's a vise or a minting press.

 

Do yourself a favor and press a dime into some clay or silly putty, and tell me what you see.

Chris

 

I have to agree with alurid on this one. It looks like it has some thing on it. Honestly it looks like a coin that was stuck to a piece of paper that comes in the mail for free sometimes. For an example of what I'm talking about, my mom received an envelope with a dime of her birth year glued to the letter, with the letter stating that she should donate money and send the dime back. These things happen all the time and that's probably what happened.

 

I see a reverse image [backwards] imprint , "not strike nor struck"

 

These are not the same coin in the original post, are they?

The thing about incuse vice job is the lower band of the torch is gone and from the crappy original pix, it appears to my eyes to be built up over it.

 

It doesn't look under the strike to me. Look at the faint image of the "D" over the bolder image of the "D".

Chris