Nice find pennyman.
It looks like what could be a worn die chip.
40% silver.
What's the weight?
Yep, it sounds like a DDO-002 on the coneca list. Value ?...
It is mint made; http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article771.chtml http://www.geocities.com/NCADD/educational1.html
Wow, finally getting around to this part of the site, sorry but what were we suppose to chat about?
Looking at these raised areas east of date and mm; [ATTACH]
Haven't really heard of that term before but it makes sense.
And welcome to the forum steve.e. I probably do have some example's some where. I'll take a looksy.
It's 'plating split doubling'.
Got any pictures? Many had a form of doubling called 'machine doubling' and it's considered damaged.
It looks normal. It's diameter is suppose to be 15.9 millimeters.
What year is it? Heavily damaged post mint. Here's one that I have, I called it trash coin; [IMG]
It looks like post mint damage maybe by a pair of cutters of some sort.
I think so. Can you put arrows where we need to see it?
All these beautiful coins. Here's my least favorite one, look at all the well placed gouges. [IMG]
Here's some info on the AM thingy. http://www.lincolncentresource.com/wideams.html
Yep, I agree, die chips.
It looks like a lamination error. What year is the coin?
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