I don't know. You've taken a photo so close that I can see her nasal hair. Besides, a die chip is just an abused die, anyway.
Not that I know of. I was just wondering which part was the same diameter as a normal nickel. If it was truly an "out of collar" strike, I would...
What the heck do you think made it! Someone started a fire in the fireplace of the east wing.
Maybe that is feeder finger damage on the die.
Yes, welcome to the neighborhood, Joe! Do you have calipers so you can measure the two diameters? ~ Chris I don't think there is any way that...
It meant that all of the West Point Mint employees were attending the annual fishing tournament on the Hudson, so production was shut down. The...
1965 Washington? Yeah, I was there. I got drunk with a bunch of high school buddies, and we ended up driving into the LBJ Inauguration...
According to Mike "The Mouth" Mezack, the Mint is going to cease production of SAE's at the end of this year. I think he still has too, too many...
And, black sand in the South Pacific could be the result of a volcanic eruption.
Robert is just being centsless!
It is all damage. You can tell because the coin metal is pushed up like the "crater effect" from a meteor strike. If it had been, say, a...
Thank you for posting this, John!
I think you're right, Jason. I didn't look at the full-coin image of the reverse. I just looked at the close-up.
I'm pretty sure that it is PMD. It appears to be a gouge with coin metal pushed up on the right side of the anomaly.
Yes it is, but die cracks, especially on Lincoln's and in that location, are as common as dirt.
Keep it clean! Keep it clean!
Absolutely not!
It could be grease and debris that stuck to the faces of the dies before the coin was struck.
There should not be a seam there, but I'll wait for others to chime in.
It was probably just a "bullion round" struck by a private mint.
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