I would guess struck through grease (or some other viscous material) maybe...but I'm not certain, Bill (or someone else) might know otherwise...
The Clash was clearer in the first pics. Nice find! I have a growing page of Clashes and Clash overlays here:...
The line is from die fatigue - very common on Late Die State (LDS) coins from the '80s and early '90s...
Die 003 or 008 - a nice CW spread - and a nice find!
Retooling a digit on a copper plated coin seems like a daunting task to cover up. Maybe not impossible, but a lot harder than taking a straight...
(For anyone interested I am creating tutorials for classes of Doubled Dies on my website http://www.lincoln-cents.cuvelier.org/index.html - I have...
That's pretty bad... I like the part were they say,
Post a large picture in a Photobucket account (or another hosting site) - when you reply link the picture with the little yellow button on the...
Based on the FG I would say it is legit. (I have a page on my site about WAMs and CAMs http://www.lincoln-cents.cuvelier.org/Design/WAM-CAM.html)...
Based on the photos provided I feel the issue with mintmark (MM) is from Die Deterioration Doubling (DDD) and very common on nickels and clads....
I agree '26 and without a doubt PMD
All of it is from a nice case of MD. The TY has the design reduced with those areas being squashed; the portrait has classic MD and the ear, while...
So you're saying you have 4 blank gold coins? Pictures? Is there anything on the surface? Are sure they're gold? Have you shown them to a...
What a rationalization... "I believe that errors occured while producing a hub or master die from a model or mabey modifying a master die...
The coin appears to have a common error, a misaligned die, but we need pictures of the reverse to know for certain. (Off center coins are equally...
Was that the only EC example you found? I have been trying to track down '09 clashes and post them on my website (in a Clash section). I have a...
Sorry to chime in so late but fantastc find! Congrats!
The correct terms are: Machine Doubling, MD or MDD (what your coin shows) and Doubled Die Obverse, DDO. I am not at all trying to be...
It's just very mild MD, what some would call ejection doubling I believe. There are no notches and there isn't any extra size (or thickness) to...
LOL - it took about 2 seconds to conclude Machine Doubling. I have a whole bunch of MD pics on this page of my site that I have created...
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