Well my digital camera didn't do any better than the scanner, so I took the penny up to the coin shop this morning and asked what kind of defect...
1924 D Lincoln Penny die break - Picture Hopefully these pictures will work. I actually SCANNED the penny...my camera being with my daughter....
The picture of the coin you provided is VERY SIMILAR to the defect on my penny. The description of an area of weakness on the other side also...
About 30 years ago I bought an old upright piano and took it apart to clean out the mice nests, candle wax and half dozen pennies that had worked...
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