I have 4 of these 1983 Cents that have the identical reverse pictured. Does anyone know anything about this? It is not listed in coppercoins.com variety list. Notcie the different shapes of all the columns as well as the markings between the 2nd and 4th columns. Thanks for any info
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I agree with the Clashed Die! However, I think that much more was going on (happened to) with the Die. IMHO, iit appears to me that the Die was approaching the end of it's use and had become distorted from all of the annealing then it suffered a Clash with the Obverse Die. To meet production demands, the Mint Workers probably made a poor attempt to grind and polish some of the Clashing but only did more damage. Frank
I also believe it to be a clashed die error. I don't believe them to be very rare though. I have at least a dozen or so, from roll-searching.
It doesn't look like a clashed die to me. Could be die damage (e.g. die dents) or a wierd form of localized die deterioration.
