Hi all, I found this in change a while back and have been trying to figure it out. Tho obv has an extremely thick rim that circles around from the right side of the coin to the bottom of the coin and up the other side. I probably lean toward mechanical damage of some sort but not sure how. If the coin had been ground on, I feel there would be marks and/or it would have gone through the nickel clad layer. Any ideas?
I would say post mint damage it looks like the coin was tampered with some how the rims were shaved down that;s why part of the rims are merging with the fields. JC
It looks like it's off centered...And it could be a defective die, which would explain the HUGE lettering...
Looks like poor strike and the dies don't appear to be parallel resulting in the unformed rim aon the obverse and the weak corresponding rims on the reverse.
It's a slightly misaligned die in concert with planchet that was inadequately upset. Combine that with the excessive convexity of the obverse die in this year and you often get a poorly formed or absent design rim.
Hm, I haven't seen one quite like this before? But I'm going to have to agree with Condor. But this is still a keeper
