It couldn’t be the planchet slipped a little when it was struck smearing out some of the devices imparted to the planchet, could it?
But it happens. All the time. These cents are minted like machine-gun fire. They’re not carefully-handcrafted, one by one. Cookies in a bakery are cut with more care and skill than these things. Look up a mint in action on YouTube, and you’ll get the picture. It’s more surprising when they DON’T come out with striking errors than when they do.
The mint marks were hand punched in 54 tho...they were placed on the master die in 89-current I think
They were hand-cut into the dies, not on every individual planchet. They’re just as susceptible to striking abnormalities as the rest of that die. Honestly, this is just a striking abnormality.
Eh,idk man,I will have to respectfully disagree on it being a strike abnormality ,I'll try to get a better shot of it
Just the ends of the D would not be the only part that would show the abnormal appearance, the top and bottom bars of the D should show the doubling effect also. I think it is a little mechanical doubling , as the 'steps' do not increase the thickness, but decreases it from what I can see. Perhaps some corrosion adding to the indecisions, Jim
What did you see on doubleddie.com or varietyvista.com. That should be the first place you check when you think you have a RPM
