It's also straddled by a retained interior die break, or at least an area that sank in and is almost completely surrounded by a bi-level die crack.
Post-strike damage that primarily affects the edge and the obverse and reverse perimeter.
Yes, progressive indirect design transfer (a.k.a. ghosting, heavy design transfer, internal metal displacement phenomenon). A form of die...
It's stained, with possibly some residue of the responsible substance. It's not an error.
Machine doubling.
You can get a very similar effect when a large, multi-element dropped filling is struck into a coin. But the well-defined margins of the...
It's probably worth $50 - $75. Not worth getting graded. If graded, there's no telling what sort of label will be affixed to the slab. The most...
As others have said, the quarter was vandalized outside the mint while the cent has a genuine curved (concave) clip.
What you have are a set of normally-oriented, incuse letters. There are two possible culprits: 1. The coin was struck through a very thin piece...
As certain others have concluded, these are contact marks from another cent. It's not an error.
Many other kinds of die deformation errors show the same pattern, in that you find a single level of severity. For example, the 1943-S "goiter"...
Because the design creeps outward past the edge of the coin. If people want to use "flared die face" that's fine too.
Design creep is the term I use when referring to a flared die face. Abnormally soft die steel expands radially beyond the working face of the...
Die scrapes from a feeder. A classic case.
It's typical for this date. The date and LIBERTY hug a very thin design rim.
The lines and gray color might represent a legitimate mint error. The lines are likely roller lines, and their presence might have been enhanced...
The seller is asking $400 for it. So I don't think I'll be examining it any time soon.
It looks struck-through to me. Note how the ME of DIME fades out just inside the sunken ring.
There is a single US coin struck by reciprocally deformed, convex-concave dies:...
http://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2015/04/collectors-clearinghouse-design-creep.html#
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