I was going through some wheat pennies when I came across this 1957. At first glance I thought someone had glued paper to it but when I looked through the loop I knew it wasn't. The picture doesn't show how raised this clumping is. Also the surface is super smooth. I noticed a area just above the "O" in "ONE" and that is where it seems to start. It looks like it had a whitish die inside the coin that came out, worked its way down the right side by following the rim and the stops by the left side wheat stalk. The picture does it no justice. When holding it you can clearly see how raised the whole clump is. I guess it is a form of cud but I have no idea. Please help. Is it worth anything?
I think your first instinct is correct. It looks like something glued to it. You say the clumping is raised, it would be imposable for this to be made at the mint.
I completely get what you are saying but I believe I misspoke earlier when I said the whole thing was raised. The blue lines point to the areas that have these doubling lines. The one by United is big but the one that gets me is the "E" in ONE. You can't really see it in the picture but it looks like a backwards L and has doubling. I know you guys are probably right but I wish you could see it in person. Let's say it foreign substance. Why would it have five different where there is either letter manipulation, die build up or both all along its border. That Obverse has no damage what so ever. Again thanks for any and all input.
Soak it in Acetone or water and that white stuff will (should) float right off revealig whatever damage may have occured to the coin. Provided of course that it wan't epoxied to the paper/art board or whatever it was glued to. If its epoxy, good luck in finding a debonder that will work.
