The answer to both of your questions is "yes".
"Rascal" asked me to weigh in. As everybody else but Rascal has concluded, this coin was vandalized outside the Mint.
The nickel is lovely. It's an off-center strike from an obverse (hammer) die with a 50% cud.
The name is Mike Diamond and I'm doing fine. ICG is wrong in this case. It's a grossly obvious vise job.
As others have said, this is simply a damaged cent.
I see no indication this coin was struck through cloth. The fine parallel lines are simply the original streaky surface of the planchet preserved...
Magic shops sell coins that have been altered so that they stick to a magnet. You can buy them online. Some have had a steel pellet or a magnet...
The obverse was struck though a very late-stage die cap. The cap may have gotten torn at 1:00 or a piece of debris may have been struck in at...
There is only one known rotating collar break (collar chip) among modern issues, and it occurs on a half dollar. This is simply a collar chip.
As others have indicated, this is a die gouge or linear die dent. A nice find, although its value is modest.
This dime was neither damaged in a dryer or spooned. It was rolled and squeezed in the horizontal plane while trapped or placed in a mechanical...
If the two faint ridges line up with each other, then it would have to be a case of complementary die dents produced when a foreign object was...
Just the opposite. Zinc cent die caps that have been involved in striking counterbrockages, are much rarer than single-strike cupped broadstrikes...
Depth of cupping is an unreliable diagnostic. When a cent planchet is struck with 38 tons of force out-of-collar on top of a coin that is also...
It's a clash, but I doubt it's a die cap. Because zinc is a soft metal, a second strike would have effectively erased the incuse bust of Lincoln...
This looks more like a case of a chipped working hub.
Damaged and struck several times with fake dies. No real error here.
Since my name was mentioned, I'd just like to say that the cent featured here shows nothing more than die deterioration.
The reeding looks normal. I would have expected a "scalloped" appearance. Perhaps the edge was protected by a layer of wax. Despite the...
Unfortunately, the thinned portion of the coin with blurred details is a case of chemical erosion. The coin was probably suspended over a...
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