Looks damaged, almost like heat/solder...
I think green18 has seen pretty much every commemorative half under the sun... ;)
Wow, from $400 to $20, and all it took was probably less than a minute of looking at a picture of the coin. That alone should tell you the quality...
Clipped cent is a clipped planchet that was then struck (mint error). Damaged cent is one that was damaged after it was struck (PMD)....
Isn't flat field doubling a form of MD, though most commonly found on proofs as they are struck more than once or something?
Question, did you have to have to modify that holder, or is there a place that sells them like that?
I'd have to stick with MD on this one. What I thought might be a split on the lower serif now just looks like MD...
It is not a doubled die, it appears to be an obverse misaligned die error, which is pretty common for the date.
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Mintmark looks a little farther south on RPM-002 than on the coin here, though with the MD present, it might be throwing things off.
Aright...who is gonna be the one to post the cat picture?
Jim, I do see the little "extra" you are referring to, but without any clear notching in the mintmark I am not confident it is an RPM. I don't see...
Any chance for clearer pics?
No it isn't. Compare it to a Lincoln Cent with a normal sized ear and you will see that if you remove the doubling, the ear on yours would look...
One way I know that it isn't a doubled die is I "remove" the doubled areas on my mind. If the ear or doubled part of the design appears smaller...
Sorry to say, but it's not a tripled ear or any sort of mint error. It is damage.
Nice coin...maybe VF20 in my opinion, though I am not an expert on Bust Halves.
Possibly, if it really is a tripled die, but there are no recorded triple ear coins I am aware of. Do you think you have one?
I have a nice tutorial posted here that may help you out with future searches. http://www.cointalk.com/t224087/#ixzz2R3SmVTtQ
That's true, and I never called them wrong or idiots for buying the coin. I was just clarifying that the coin in the link is not a doubled die.
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