New to the forum, found these recently, they look legit to me but any input is appreciated, thanks! Including my terminology lol
I believe you may be correct on the first coin, a filled die. The second one is just damaged though. Someone pressed other coins into it. One clue is that the extra images are reversed and incuse.
First, welcome to the neighborhood @Drew61 ! Coins produced from grease-filled dies are very common, and I agree with the others that the 1995-D is nothing more than post-mint damage (PMD). Someone had nothing better to do. ~ Chris
The first coin is a nice greaser. The second is damaged by a larger coin. Notice the T size so it's a vice job. The coin is very nice. It's certainly struck twice. There is the rim which may or not be damage. I don't think it's damage but it shows no signs of a strike. But it's also a prison Cent, meaning the reverse is struck on the obverse. Nice coin. Welcome to CT.
Thanks for the replies and the welcomes. This staying at home has got me back into my old hobbies again. I even pulled out my old metal detector, cleaned it and got it working again. May do some of that soon.
The one that is called a double strike is just a altered coin. Someone has pressed or hammered two cent coins together . This is obvious because of the damage on both sides and the rim.
Because some extra letters on a coin are reverse and incuse does not always mean the coin has been damaged. The real tell tale signs on the op's coin is where the other coins rims have damaged this one and it is stretched out of round . These vise job or hammer job coins are wider in diameter which helps to spot them. I just got thru seeing on Ebay where someone sold a vise/hammer job zinc cent for 135.00 that really sucks .
You can't deny that in this case the reverse letters are the main factor in the attribution. This is a damaged coin every way you look at it.
It looked to me that this coin flipped partially onto another and was struck again but not knowing how they actually move past dies, showed it here for input.
Didn't say it always means it was damaged, just that it was one clue in this case. The poster thought it was triple struck, the die can not strike reversed incuse letters.