How did this happen?

I can’t figure it out. I would have thought the letters were a hammer job but they’re not in the concave area. Tough to photograph but tell me what you think. Please don’t just post “PMD”, I would like to know how this could be done.

Not great photos but I tried different light and angles to show what’s easy to see in hand.

 

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Seeing that it is indented and reversed lettering, I would hazard a guess that another coin was pressed into it.

 

2 coins in a vise smashed together. obviously damage. PMD

 

vice job, more than once too.
take a look at the reverse of a cent and align them up and you'll see.

 

Thanks guys, I knew it was damage just didn’t know how. Found it in a coinstar today and just wondered about it.

 

Looks like multiple impressions of another cent on this coin. I can see at least two rim impressions in the pictures.
Angry 12 year old with two cents and a ball pein hammer? That's as good a guess as any.

 

Hi @H8_modern any of those features raised or all incuse? Could it be UFO (Unidentified Fascinating Oddity?) This is right up my alley old pal. Let's see what Mr. Wexler calls these while we pray for his speedy recovery. http://doubleddie.com/2397237.html I'm waiting to get enough to make a lucite specimen

 

@HB_modern I loaded this image onto my pc and blew it up 200x and I believe I see an O at 10:00 raised. What does it look like while in hand? Very tough to translate with 2d photography but in hand?.

 

Alex, what is a Vice Job?

http://www.error-ref.com/squeeze-job-or-vice-job-or-garage-job/

 

If it weren't going to cause people to hammer me for being insensitive to a newbie, I'd ask why this answer wasn't obvious.

Here's the obvious 30,000 foot view: People are becoming aware that an entire new generation of coin collectors is obsessed with errors to a point that swamps any past interest. Consequently, there are the unscrupulous out there who will be trying anything they can to produce new "errors" to sell into this mania. Just. Like. In. Toned. Coins.

 

+1

I have enjoyed collecting beyond all measure — totally without a care about errors and toners. There are many marvelous coins out there that are neither toned nor hold an error.

 

@Santinidollar Agreed but in my case I enjoy the UFO/PMD coins more as art objects and mysterious as well as my Half Cents and others. Tis in the eye of the beholder is it not? Appreciate a man with a hobby and you will soon appreciate everything. Keep up enjoying what you do and helping us with more passion than cents.LOL

 

The neat thing is the coin collecting tent is big enough for everybody

 

Hey Tammie, I am fully aware of the generational differences between my generation and my son's, who is 23. We have discussed it DEEPLY during a PA to Ft. Lauderdale road trip. We discussed my generation's typical zeitgeist, the way mine differed from my age peers, his generation's archetype, and how he differed from his.

My bottom line: I have decided his generation's archetype is "bat feces crazy" and I don't care WHAT they think. In fact, I typically feel compelled to tweak their collective noses, just remind them I'm still here. My generation had to wait the usual 30 years to be effectively "in charge". I'll be darned if we'll just hand that to his generation. Ain't. Happenin'.

"Generational war?" Sign me up as a bomber pilot.

Me? I was the model for Michael J. Fox's character Alex P. Keaton, trapped in a generation of "hippies".

 

But Kurt, I want it noooooow!

 

Check out this Newbies treatment of my answers yesterday and notice I bit my tongue to reply nicely https://www.cointalk.com/conversations/1955-1-cent.221643/

 

The link doesn't work.

 

I work for the PA House of Reps. The new members-elect were in for orientation. Several full blown millennials. What a bunch of overly-entitled whining BRATS! Almost enough to get me to retire.

 

it works when i hit it. search coin talk forum for 1955-1-cent maybe it will pull up from there. Anyway a prime example of your feelings....lol @V. Kurt Bellman