Sorry Rick it is not one of the doubled ear coins
it looks to me like the ear has taken a hit and this changed it's look
Your coin looks like it has been damaged from something striking it after it left the mint.
yes it did and don't let it get you . I believe you may be trying to learn too fast . JMO
I see that you are calling these marks ridge marks. the proper term for this is reed marks. the reeded edge of coins digs into other coins and...
Rick I think you got it right. A working hub before the single squeeze process was pushed into a working coin die more than once to get a strong...
this looks like where a small die chip is starting to form in the die . in answer to your question , yes you may be trying too hard. It is best to...
This thing is a man made altered coin just like a lot of folks are telling you. a mint error and a damaged coin like yours is totally different...
sorry Condor I missed your post . you said about the same thing as I did. this altered coin was easy to figure out.
Well looks like both of us got it right
This is definitely a man made squeeze job. the coin that was used to make this coin had been pressed into other coins at least twice before this...
looks like a real dropped letter to me plus some extra debris was with it. nice find
the problem with this one is that the copper plating split during the strike along the top of the letters exposing the zinc core , now the zinc is...
lots of things will cause corrosion to form on copper and it eats the copper away the same as acid would. this is what some copper coins looks...
this is called a abraided die coin since the die was heavily ground and polished
Donald there is no way possible for this coin to have been made this way at the mint. the coin dies are a round solid piece of steel , the dies...
Rick this looks to be PMD plus die detoration on the word UNITED . I have some coins from dies so worn out that almost two complete sets of...
ziggy9 is right , this is a area of the zinc exposed and rotting.
this looks like what some folks calls a parking lot coin where vehicles has ran over it.
This coin is probably just toned , I have hundreds of them that turned to a brillant gold color and some of them are a deep copper color. I'm...
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