You appear to have stumbled upon a forum about coins. The picture you show may represent a bit of a coin? However, we have absolutely no idea what you are trying to achieve with your distress call. Are you stranded on a boat? Are you deserted on an uninhabited island? Are you lost in a big city, and this cent is your only money?
Welcome to CT!! If you are asking about the gash near his lips, yes this is PMD (post mint damage). basically the coin took a hit there sometime during its life after it left the mint. A spender IMO. Now as for your title and post. It really helps if you give us more info in both. Just an exclamation point is not the greatest title. Not to mention not the easiest to select. Next time try putting some more info into the title like "Need help on a Lincoln Cent" for example. Then in your post ask your question. "What is the mark near the lips on this coin?" This will help us out in helping you. Again welcome to CT. Stick around and you will learn a lot!
I'm new to this and trying to learn my way it your going to be edited and not help please don't respond
The answer that was given was the truth. Your Cent is PMD - Post Mint Damage because it took a hit. I don't see why the answer would make @NLL edited Circulated coins take hits and cause different types of deformities.
Hey now...not fair. @NLL answered your question honestly. We are trying to help, but as stated without an explanation of what you are asking about all we can do is guess and give you our opinion of what we see on the coin.
Welcome to CT @kfprincy ...... Fellows aren't being wise acres at all. Sometimes a short answer tends to appear that way. On your cent, old Abe took a blow to the chin is all. Keep looking. This is the best hobby in the world.
The best way to ask a question is to provide the "total information" about what you are asking. We cannot look through your eyes to see what you are seeing; we cannot guess what question you are asking about as maybe we may see something else that you haven't seen. What is occurring is you *see* something and you are in a hurry to get an answer. In that hurriedness state you are not providing any information of everything related to what you are thinking, seeing and evaluating. Just think of this question: "how much is my car worth?" I'm sure you can't answer that question without a plethora of questions and pictures. Welcome to CT
