2017 P Dime Error?

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  1. Surgeprotector

    Surgeprotector Machine Doubling....gets me every time!

    Hello everyone, I am new to coin collecting...as in a few days new. I started by just wanting to organize all of my world coins and began to find interesting things. I am now looking into my USD change and i came across something interesting in this 2017 p Dime. In the obverse side of this dime just above the ear there is a dollop of excess metal. I am not sure if i would call it a curd as it just looks like it was placed there almost as if molten metal dripped on there. Anyways, i compared it with 6 other 2017 p Dimes and i have not seen it any of them. I also looked online for images and have yet to see one there too. What do you guys/gals think?
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  3. Surgeprotector

    Surgeprotector Machine Doubling....gets me every time!

    Also, feel free to let me know if i posted this in the wrong section...
     
  4. abuckmaster147

    abuckmaster147 Well-Known Member

    Could be a die chip! And no to cud they start at rim.
     
  5. Surgeprotector

    Surgeprotector Machine Doubling....gets me every time!

    I guess it would be cud/die chip. Strange how perfectly round it is though. Should i keep or spend?
     
  6. tommyc03

    tommyc03 Senior Member

    It is a minor die chip and there is another at the corner of the mouth. This is very common on newer dimes, especially from Philadelphia, where they work the dies way past their useful life. Check for others on the reverse also, within the leaves and sometimes at the torch base. It does not hold any value above face, but by all means, if you like it, keep it.
     
  7. Kentucky

    Kentucky Supporter! Supporter

    I thought that was a fever blister :)
     
  8. abuckmaster147

    abuckmaster147 Well-Known Member

    Ha Ha I did not see that one uh oh he's got the slurpies!!!!!
     
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  9. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

    Yup, it's the cold sore variety. :)
     
  10. Pickin and Grinin

    Pickin and Grinin Well-Known Member

    I keep them, Die breaks and die cracks are fun.

    I am gonna photo a 2017D Nickel with a small Die Chip on the reverse, and start a thread. Because there is more going on than just a small "die chip".

    Edit it is a 2016D
     
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  11. dwhiz

    dwhiz Collector Supporter

    I sure would keep it, nice find.
     
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  12. gronnh20

    gronnh20 Well-Known Member

    This section is fine. Welcome to CoinTalk.
     
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  13. Surgeprotector

    Surgeprotector Machine Doubling....gets me every time!

    Thanks guys for all the info....much appreciated.
     
  14. Surgeprotector

    Surgeprotector Machine Doubling....gets me every time!

    Definitely something going on. I just found a 2016 P Dime with similar issues too. The red arrows point to cuds but the one in yellow points to a perfect circle with a cud right in the exact center. This is fun stuff!!!

    2016pDime-nose-error.jpg
     
  15. Searcher64

    Searcher64 Member

    Start of an interior cud. Die wear.
     
  16. Surgeprotector

    Surgeprotector Machine Doubling....gets me every time!

    But how does that make a perfect circle?
     
  17. Searcher64

    Searcher64 Member

    As the die wears, the high points are the first to brake down, because of stress of the pressures in striking the plainchant. Think of the direction of the metal flow during striking.
     
  18. Surgeprotector

    Surgeprotector Machine Doubling....gets me every time!

    That part i get regarding a cud but the circle itself is deeper than the rest not raised, only the cud is raised. Maybe i didn't explain the circle well enough, what i see is a depressed circle where in the center of the circle there is a raised cud.
     
  19. Pickin and Grinin

    Pickin and Grinin Well-Known Member

    Non of the above are Cuds, they are interior die breaks.
     
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  20. dwhiz

    dwhiz Collector Supporter

    I've found a couple of 2015 in change 2015 10c Struck thru.JPG
     
  21. Surgeprotector

    Surgeprotector Machine Doubling....gets me every time!

    Well, "cold sores" are contagious lol
     
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