The ornamentation on the rim and denticles is from an advertising slogan stamped into a metal ring that once surrounded this coin. In other...
These are chain strikes, not edge strikes. Totally unrelated errors.
Looks like a foreign planchet to me. The coin is clearly undersized, as well as being underweight.
post-strike damage
I have no personal interest in looking at it, but if you want to satisfy your curiosity, you may send it along. PM me if this is your decision...
I must echo the uncertainty voiced by found-in-rolls. I'm not sure if it's an improperly annealed planchet or a coin that acquired an odd pattern...
It's an unusual form of die deterioration. I'm not aware of any from 1983. They don't appear to have much value. Then again, I've never seen...
It's a case of peripheral die expansion and erosion. The phenomenon is only known among 1982 cents (several die pairs)....
The term "ram strike" has been replaced by "stiff collar error". These are known at least as far back as Indian cents. But they're relatively...
I have no need to see this specimen, but if you wanted your curiosity satisfied, I would be willing to examine it for you.
A key piece of evidence to look for in the intervals between the erstwhile letters would be the presence of die flow lines identical to those seen...
It kinda looks like rim-restricted design duplication. The problem is that each "letter top" that appears at the internal margin of the design...
In these years the WE hugs the design rim and often appears to run off the edge when it actually doesn't. To confidently diagnose design creep,...
Nothing but horrendous corrosion.
As ultralight said, these dents are commonly associated with multi-strikes of this appearance and appear to coincide with the final few strikes or...
These are probably accidental die scrapes. While they most often appear on the anvil die and are the result of a mis-timed feeder, they're not...
Undoubtedly a magician's coin, used for sleight-of-hand tricks.
All the US coins struck on oversized planchets I've come across carry a date of 1981. They were also all uniface, like the 1981 cent on nickel...
The enhanced image does raise suspicions, but the poor quality of the photo leaves open the possibility of a photographic illusion. In the...
This would be the result of intentional die abrasion.
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