The imperfection on the head is a bi-level die crack. It's one of many "cracked skull" Lincolns from the 1950s.
This is 100% die deterioration doubling.
This week's Coin World features an update on this phenomenon. A fourth die pair is now associated with this rotating collar chip and the pattern...
Here's another reason why this hardened die fill might stand above the level of the surrounding, unobstructed die-struck design. If the...
You are correct that the same kind of hardened black crud found embedded in the 1959-D and 1970-D cents is the same material responsible for...
This does appear to be a struck through grease error in which some of the "grease" has been retained. I do find it odd that much of the grease...
I suspect it would bring between $40 and $50 on eBay. That's mainly because the smaller off-center strike is so tiny.
#53 is a saddle strike on a previously-struck cent (a "saddle/triple strike"). The larger of the two off-center strikes has a chain-struck edge,...
These latest photos clear up any remaining doubts -- this is an elliptical clip. The unstruck edges on either side of the short axis of the...
The 2 ore coin shows a significant amount of horizontal lipping, which is characteristic of aligned partial brockages generated by partial die caps.
I've seen longer ones, some equal to or surpassing 180 arc degrees (my memory is too hazy to be more precise). All of them were on cents, for...
Quite a few overweight (3.3 - 3.4 grams), "brass" cents (cents enriched in tin and/or zinc) appeared in 1941 and a few in 1942. Their...
This is definitely a rim cud, and an unusually long one.
I don't think the VA 25c is an elliptical strike clip. It lacks the necessary diagnostics (e.g., rounded shoulder on one face, thick vertical...
The prospect of the crescent not covered by the brockage-maker being die-struck on both faces depends on the vagaries of striking pressure....
The 1966 half dollar does appear to show a rolling indentation.
As the error-ref entry indicates, there are three possible causes for aligned partial brockages such as this. I suspect that it's a brockage from...
No. 47 does appear to be a centered triple strike. The first strike in-collar, the second a partial collar, and the third out-of-collar. The...
The lead-off coin is an "aligned partial brockage". There are three known causes for such errors. The most common cause, and the cause in this...
They are quite rare and I would estimate its value in the $400 - $500 range. Of course, with the economy in collapse and disposable income...
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