1988 lincoln cent?

On the steps of the memorial is an anomaly that resembles the top of the urn to the right, upside down. Could this be considered a dropped element?

 

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Just damage

 

How did you determine that?

 

The steps are uninterrupted where anomaly is. Damage would interrupt the step design.

 

Look.. you found a Die Crack. Your first minor error ever!

 

No

 

Why not paddyman98?

 

@Avery G.

Do you even spend 1 second researching error types? You are the only person I can recall on this forum who so far has learned absolutely nothing.

 

Because that's not a dropped element. That's all I have to say.

 

The experts on here are a joke. I don't care if you guys don't like me as a coin collector, but when you give a response it should be an educated one. You guys respond the way that you do because you don't have an educated answer, so you're left with hostility. You are not going to run me away so get over it. If you don't have an educated response, keep quiet, i wont be offended.

 

Have you noticed that others have stopped responding to your threads? We have given you plenty of information but you keep calling eveything you see a dropped element. If you haven't learned by now then you never will! It gets very tiring.

I'm done with you as everyone else is also.

No more responses from me!

 

My last post!

 

Good! You speak for everyone. You control what everyone else does, wow!

 

You don't have a dropped element from an urn. The error-ref.com said it was verified by using an overlay. Notice that they went to the extra effort to prove it. Even if you had some credibility left on here, you would still need to show extraordinary proof to support an extraordinary claim.

Here is an easy way to recognize this as damage. Notice how there is displaced metal around indent. That doesn't happen in strike throughs or the elusive dropped element

If you're having so many problems with the experts in this site, why don't you try the PCGS forum.

 

Where did the displaced metal come from? I don't see any dings, dents or gouges anywhere else on this coin. The rim is free of damage. The anomaly is shaped like and upside down and mirror image to the top portion of the right urn.

 

It's not hard to spot damage. It's almost impossible to say what caused it. Asking others to tell you the cause is not reasonable. The coin took a hit. That's all that can be known about the coin.

 

If you don't like the answers, why keep asking?

 

The coin is made of zinc, a crap metal for coins. So much can happen to them but this is not a Mint error. Some of the reverse lettering exhibits split plate doubling but your real error on this coin is the die crack on the lower left of the steps. It's small but it's there and it's a mint error. Not worth more than one cent as they are so common. Paddy pointed this error out to you. If that coin was mine, I'd be happy with the Mint error die crack. The right urn anomaly is nothing.

 

Look very carefully at raised metal around the hit (upside down urn) you insist on calling a displaced element.

 

I'm to dumb to be controlled.