Ok i appologize ive been trying to figure this out and there saying nothing is there it offended me because i no those numbers and letters are there
I can help you. I nos all about coins. You coin is really rare. You should not show it to anyone else. Send it to PCGS for grading. They will put it in one of those hard plastic things. That will keep it safe. Wish I could find something as cool as this.
Oh Fred, you underestimate my powers of firing back in kind, sir. I grew up in a nasty inner city as a youth. Sailors can't take it when I get rolling.
Let me put this as kindly as I can. "Shapes that closely resemble those numbers and letters are there. There is no means by which actual numbers and letters can get there. The minting process is not a "black box of mystery" to me. I understand it quite completely." Have a good rest of your day.
Sure.... why not? It wouldn't be the first time. Try me. Seriously though, how sad. I'm not at all surprised and thought that on more than one level the thread was one of the most ridiculous we've seen in some time. If only you would have looked harder... (roll eyes here).
What a shame, sorry to hear this. But this thread seems headed in the same direction and I hope the mods warn this person off. I would assume they gave the other poster a time out but I really hope he does not return. Trash talk does no one here or the hobby any good. The poster on this thread is 41 and only has three days here but has already started the argumentative process into the wrong direction.
Fred Weinberg said it was just damage. I'd suggest you google his name before you go off telling anyone that they don't "no" anything.
Again, sir; this is not an insult, but reasonably explains why you think you're seeing such impossible letters/numbers... https://www.livescience.com/25448-pareidolia.html https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...ople-see-faces-when-there-are-none-pareidolia
I see the so-called "4" and am simply trying to help you, but this is a two-way street. You're far from the first to show up here believing a coin to be an impossible error and certainly aren't the last. If you wish to simply dismiss what you've been told, then please do as I respectfully asked earlier and explain EXACTLY how this fantastical "error" came to be. In particular, where did this magically large "4" come from? Are you familiar with Occam's Razor, sir?
I'm sure if the coin was cleaned, the extra numbers & letters would disappear. some have used scopes to get into infinitely fine detail of the surface just to surmise that there's hidden numbers and text on them. They didn't understand digital extrapolation. You need to research of how that could happen. Also research what PMD could contain. On a thread I listed a short list (about 50 lines of compact examples of what PMD is). But if the coin was ever covered by a substance and something else that may have had a number or letter on it, then that substance dried a bit, that then made it seem as though there was a number or letter there. that reminds me. I gotta make time to make my own 1955 D example this weekend. oh, and if you don't believe anyone then simple send it in to PCGS for grading. If it is, then the money spent will be worth it. If it's not ... ouch and better luck next time.
In the Mint, there are not random characters of various sizes floating around getting stuck to coins. This only happens in select cities. For example, in Boston, there are airborne R’s in the atmosphere that have been cut loose from words like car, and barn, and monster. They go up into the lower stratosphere where they remain until coming down in Indiana in the word “wash”.
Bud, we aren't telling you that you don't see what appears to you to be letters and numbers. What it appears you are seeing is with the "U", notice that it is almost directly below the other U above it in "UNITED", and both are in a swath of damage. The top U is really one , the lower one is where something scrape the real one and moved the top portion ( like a double layered cake that you hit the first layer and it moved off the bottom one),,,,copper is very much softer than most things that hit it. Something similar happened to produce what you call the 4. Look at it long enough it could look like an A or a squished D, but it is really just debris and corrosion of the metal. There really is nothing there of value. Jim
You are going to find people on this board who like to joke and kid, but when they tell you something about coins, that advice is probably 90-95% accurate. When any object wears, the wear patterns can be odd. What you appear to have is something in this category. No one doubts what you see, we can see them too, the point is that there is nowhere in coin making technology that those can be created. What you are seeing is the product of wear and age. If you are really convinced that you have a mint error, take it to a shop and have it submitted for authentication, the people at the shop can help you with this.
