Does 2002-D Dime Show Mint Error(s) or Other Damages?

Hi,

I am too inexperienced at coin collecting to make any judgment, but I found this dime and wonder if any of the "peculiarities" it exhibits are mint errors or damages that happened after minting. I appreciate your input--whether or not your evaluation forms an opinion favoring mint error(s) or damages that happened after minting. I'm sorry that the pictures are not any better, but I do not have a steady hand.

 

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That there is what I call a DEFDAM - Definitely Damaged

Not a Mint Error of any kind.

 

17 years of wear and damage. Probably got ran over by a lawn mower at some point too - the fast spinning blade impact stuff.

 

That's kind of what I thought, however, there do not appear to be any nicks in the clad where the other metal shows through. I also noted the rim on the obverse.

This is what someone else offered:

Largest cud error (a blob-like area visible on obverse, to right of Roosevelt’s neck)
· obliterates lettering of legend, notably in AMERICA, where –ICA becomes increasingly invisible; obliterates lettering in motto, where –M of UNUM increasingly becomes invisible;
· obliterates lettering in DIME, where DIME becomes increasingly invisible;
· obliterates relief’s outer edge of oak leaf’s right lowest leaf;
· obliterates the bullet character that is ordinarily seen between the words AMERICA and DIME (bullet character ordinarily follows the last -A in AMERICA and comes after the -E in DIME);
Multiple rim distortions are visible to the naked eye, particularly where cuds are obvious, but also presumably from various die breaks or die cracks on both obverse and reverse sides.
Edge appears to show multiple die cracks.
Edge’s reeding is obliterated throughout length of cud.
Curved clipped-type planchet error(s) visible in 2 areas.
Coin is misshapen in multiple places.

Granted, I would, of course, love for this to be an error coin. But, I can kind of see where some of this makes sense. Is this someone so far off?

 

@RevGCD The person who gave you that information has no idea what they're talking about. Your coin suffered significant damage after it left the mint. Hang out on Coin Talk and you'll pick up a lot of info on how coins and dies are made, which is the key to knowing when you have an error or variety (Not easy to find) and when you have a damaged coin (lots and lots of examples in circulation)

 

If you can sell your damaged dime to that person I'd sell it in an instant. Take the money and run, as the saying goes.

Just run really fast.

 

LOL. I wouldn't dream of doing that to anyone. I don't even know the person that offered that information.

I've seen plenty of coins damaged in everyday circulation, I just thought this one looked a lot different than what I would expect of anything run over by cars, stuck in washing machines, caught in the garbage disposal, hit by lawnmowers, etc. But, as I said, it had more to do with the lack of scrapes in the outer layer of the clad (that otherwise probably result in at least some exposure of the layers below) and the raised or misshapen distortions I could see.

Thank you for your feedback, all the same... I sincerely appreciate you taking your time to look this over and for the opinions you've offered.

 

Your wrong because I have one almost exactly same errors in exact same places front and back that is a 2002 dime D mint mark. What are the odds of someone faking two coins in the same year same mint exact same places? Oh and the lines on the outer edges on mine are still there. So I think yours as well as mine are errors. Wish I knew how to put pictures of mine here. Lol

 

It is a mint mistake because I have one just like its the same year and the same minting place, Denver. Damaged in almost the exact same ways. But on the outer ridge the groove's, even though it is flat in one spot, the lines on the outside are still as they should be... there. Mine is a 2002 D dime with the same kind of distortions in almost the same places. The "m & e" fade out to pretty much not there. It's the fact that our two dime are minted and distorted that is confirming my thoughts of mint error.

 

I'm never wrong!

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If you have one that is the same, then you have a dime that just happened to be damaged in the same way. There is no way that could have happened at the mint. You really have to have some knowledge of the minting process if you want to identify errors.

 

Kristyne....stating you have a coin "exactly" like it is a very strong statement and means absolutely nothing without a photo. Please post a quality picture.


....and Paddys full of it...he only has 74 articles.....and 2 Nobel Peace prizes.

 

"almost" is the key word here.
it's also "almost" an error but isn't.
It's also almost the same type of damage, but isn't.
You're almost understanding the mint process, but aren't.
BUT
your information is not confirming OUR thoughts of it being a mint error.

and you don't realize the OPS coin is NOT a mint error.

 

Who played the part of Paddyman in the movie?
Brad Pitt?
Rodney Dangerfield?
Gilbert Gottfried?

 

Sam Kinneson

 

It appears to be struck at least twice to me and doubt if that happened after it left the mint.

 

Welcome to the forum. Spend some time here reading posts, studying the minting process and looking at genuine errors. The dime pictured here is just damaged.

 

Wrong.. Don't doubt. Have faith in our responses and you will learn so much.

 

Throw some coins down your garbage disposal or run over them with your lawn mower. You might see some similarities.

One of those "one and done" posters.
Thought they won the lottery and found out it's just junk.

 

called Post mint damage nothing special or unusual