What is this?????

Found this coin roll hunting and have never seen anything like it. I know it's something good and would like to put it up on feebay but don't know how to label it. Help please!

 

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Seeing the damaged rims makes me think it was altered/damaged outside of the mint, so post-mint damage. I don't see what error it could possibly be.
Keep up the hunt!

 

The reverse part of the coin looks like there was an extra part struck over the coin. Looks like I could peel it off if I tried hard enough.

 

I see what you mean, and honestly I don't know what to call it because I have never seen a coin like this before. Hopefully some error experts can chime in on this coin.

 

I believe it is PMD also. Creative grinding/sanding metalwork. Or it met up with one powerful and badly adjusted coin counting machine.

 

That looks very interesting, to me it looks like damage that came from the mint

 

Not to dispute PMD, but being as this is clearly a zinc cent, I would think that this much grinding it would show though.

 

How ya figure?
I don't see a date or any other markings to indicate its zinc.

That said, I'm 99% sure this is PMD. The scratches on the obverse pretty much give that away.

 

I see a few plating blisters on the obverse, and the initials at the base of the memorial are bold. And sometimes you can just tell by the color and look of the design. So I am pretty much positive it is a zincoln.

 

Did you bother to even look at the design? Take another look and then tell me that this is not a zinc cent.

 

It's glue. You can take it off with acetone, I'll bet.

 

It is a zinc. You can see the zinc along the whole side of the raised area on the reverse. It is NOT glue. I have found hundreds of error coins coin roll hunting and sell them on eBay. This is a mint error I just don't know what happened in the minting process to cause this.

 

If you don't know how it happened in the minting process, how can you be sure it is an error?
The flattened rims, scratches/gouges all point to PMD. I'm not saying there is no possible way it can be a mint error, but in my experience searching rolls for errors and varieties, the damage I am seeing is consistent with a coin altered outside the mint.
If you don't mind, could you please private message me your ebay username? I would like to see the other errors you have found while searching.

 

It was squeezed between something. Notice how the clear parts of the image correspond on both sides. This is because there were voids and low spots in what ever vice got a hold of it. PMD

 

I could have been any number of things that caused this, my guess is someone put it in a vice grip or bench grip, then went to town on it. No mint error I've ever seen has done this.

 

Extra strips of metal cannot be "struck on" a coin, they can't fuse with it (besides other coins, as far as I know). Plus, if there was a piece of metal stuck in the coining chamber, it would result in an incuse anomaly on the coin, creating a "struck through" error. But that is not what happened on your coin.

 

I can't say with 100% certainty that it isn't a Mint error. It looks almost as though a piece of metal (scrap of a blank?) fell onto the planchet while in the coining chamber and was retained after being struck. Note that the lettering appears bold on the fragment, but is very weak or missing on the rest of UNITED STATES of AMERICA and part of the Memorial. This could suggest that the die was not able to make complete contact with the underlying planchet.

I can't explain the parallel lines on the obverse, but it is interesting to note that those lines from Lincoln's chin and the field in front of it end abruptly and uniformly at a point along Lincoln's shoulder which appears to be a line that is not a part of the design. Note also that this line coincides with that area of the rim and date which appear to be missing. This might also suggest that some foreign object was between the obverse die and the planchet when it was struck.

Go ahead and call me crazy, but I think we need someone like Mike Diamond to analyze this.

Chris

NOTE to the OP: Don't try to peel the scrap off the reverse!

 

That's PMD.that coin was stuck between two moving parts for sometime.

 

I pulled a quarter out of a machine once that looked like an indian tribe carved a little axe head put of it. It had little damage on one side and the other was ground to a sharp point.

 

There would have to have been too many unusual occurances for this to be a mint error. First, note the metal pushed out beyond the perimeter of the coin in the area circled on the right. This would mean a partial collar or broken collar. Second, the die would have to have had a piece of something stuck on it's perimiter to cause the impression in the circle on the left. Third, the so-called piece of metal struck into it has a well defined shape that is even on both sides.
I would be more inclined to believe that whatever was used to smoosh the coin had a void in it that matches that shape.