Here is a 1971 cent with I guess md, the 1947 d I think might be mint damage / Not thinking PMD, Because there Is no evidence on the reverse that it was pressed against anything? fill me in please? Note the JPG5,&6 are of the 1947D. Posted a better picture of the crater !
Yes the '71 cent has mechanical doubling. As for the '47, 2 possibilities IMO. 1 - it is deliberate damage done by a person long after the coin was struck. 2 - it is the result of a large planchet flaw and delamination that occurred after the coin was issued into circulation. Based on the way it looks, I think the 1st possibility is the most likely.
Ok thanks I was just checking I had seen one for sell with a green tag Mint damage A few days ago and was not sure, I have many coins that the planchest are pilling and have surface cracks,
I don't think so. If it were a strike through the edges around the depression would not be so sharp and they would not appear to be lifting up and away from the surface of the coin. Instead they would be angled downwards pressing into the coin. I have never seen a strike through that did not have that characteristic.
I can't tell from the photo if the edges have any "cratering" going on. If that is the case, then it is definitely damage. The internal look of the area and the uniformity of the depth certainly has all the hallmarks of a struck through though.
Not when you look at it full size. When you do, you can see where something was gouged into the metal starting on the left hand side and it left tell tale striations at the beginning of the gouge on the far left. You can even see additional gouges with striations on the chin and under the chin. Strike throughs don't do that.
Not my image at all, that's the original image that the OP posted. All I did was show it full size and crop it.
