Good morning, hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend thus far. I've had this coin for a while (so long that I don't even remember when/where I picked it up - probably picked it from a bulk bag of wheaties or something. I believe it's a pretty huge lamination mint error - figured I'd post it here to either confirm or amend my "diagnosis." The good news is that the peel left the date/mint mark. Looking underneath the obverse area still left "intact" (the date/mm side) it looks as if there is a hollow area under that section. Here is the coin - what do you think? Can you get more specific than my "minimally experienced" opinion? Thanks!
Yeah, that's what I was wondering - if the brighter (fresher) copper line on the bottom right edge of the lamination peel is brighter because it separated and then circulated a bit more, or if someone had pried it off by force.
So i agree with all of the above ,but there's 3 distinctive areas 3 different textures, and most probably loss of peel at different times, @ different levels. I wonder how long it heled up until this state?
I like to see this in hand to judge the 3 areas one looks like a cap strike sort of top 1/3 / then a lip to another level of thickness, then another lip up to the coins orginal surface thickness. The center 1/3 is the deepest cut in the coin. And betting that the medal broke from the lower 1/3 area.
I have never found a lamination coin. On my bucket list along with a missing clad Kennedy half dollar like 9ball’s
