Notice the eyes underneath Monticello and the line going through the eyes on front. Also notice the cracking along the rim on the obverse.
I sure do like your coin. this is probably a 2006 coin. these with this same looking die clash can be found for 2006 and 2007. I had one of these and gave it to Mr. Neff a well know error collector. The one I had was made before the obverse die got clogged up with something. Your coin IMO is worth much much more than the regular clashed ones.It looks as if the obverse die for your coin has had a die cap on it and has about completely worn away and fell loose from the die. these fragments that falls off sometimes gets struck into the coins and your coin appears to have a few small struck in fragments and a larger one that looks like lamination struck in the coin on top of Jefferson's head.Where are you finding all of these awesome coins ? on second thought don't tell me and keep it as your secret place. thanks for showing us this coin. I know a certain person that is supposed to be a error coin pro. that will try to say your coin is PMD if he ever sees this post just because it has the laminated and fold over looking places like the one on top of the head, he always swears that all coins with this is PMD. I say don't listen to him if he does. he has already declared a coin as PMD for me that I truly believe is a very unusal and genuine mint error just because of seeing this in a photo on here. Troy
The coin shows nice clash marks. Unfortunately, the obverse is suffering from severe post-strike damage. The puffy letters, heavily scratched surface, and thin apron of metal extending in from the rim are clear indications of this.
Mike I highly regard your decisions but don't you think this super thin aporn of metal could possibly be a fragment that has become fused to the coin from the almost totally worn away die cap ? you could possibly be getting this confused with the altered coins we call spooned coins or dryer coins. If this coin has no outer rim damage at all then where could this extra metal come from ? If the rim is spooned in then I would have to agree with you , my guess is that it may not be a spooned coin because the reverse side don't look like it is. We all know that this is a common thing to see on the spooned coins but I have seen this a few times before on coins that were not spooned coins like the unusal cent coin I had on this forum not very long ago and lots of folks screamed PMD as they usually do.
The damage here is obvious. My conclusion stands. I will no longer respond to your posts, Rascal. They are devoid of insight and purely argumentative.
Mike you can go back and read what I said and I'm sorry if you can not see any insight in what I wrote.. I don't see how what I said teed you off so much. I was just trying to give you some good information . I have learned that we never get too good or too old to learn things unless our ego blocks everything out. also like I said only a hammered edge coin or a spooned coin can be flared out enough for this thin apron to be folded down this much and if this is not the case then why should we not take the time to check for some type of error or whatever ? a spooned or dryer coin usually has rounded edges and is almost allways smaller in diameter. My belief is that when a capped die becomes about totally worn away and the die starts to become clean again some of the super thin pieces from the die cap can somehow become fused to the new planchet when the die strikes it. If you want to see the OP's coin he may send it to you if you ask him to. If you check it out and the edge of the rim and the diameter of the coin is normal then something else did this. If you don't want to reply to my posts then no harm is done here , We don't appear to be doing any good by butting heads anyway.
