It was double-struck and then cancelled. As with many such cancellation strikes, the coin lay between a cancellation die and a second coin, which...
This is clearly post-strike damage as the reverse is damaged along a similar arc.
Although I failed to win the coin in your eBay auction, I would like permission to use your photos in an upcoming Coin World column. Thanks. --...
Yes, the cancellation strike is clearly seen on the second picture. Cancellation strikes ordinarily reduce a coin's value, so if this strike...
The raised design of a cancellation die is readily seen on the reverse face. Many recent Egyptian errors show cancellation strikes.
Certainly, if a coin is struck out of collar and shows both designs offset to the same degree and in the same direction, then it's obvious you're...
Contra Conder 101, a misaligned die error is not dependent on the presence of a fully or partly deployed collar. A misalignment can occur in...
The obverse face is not misaligned. It just shows slight finning of the rim. The reverse face is not misaligned enough to be considered an error.
Conder101 nailed it. Is it for sale? In any event, I'd like to write it up for Coin World.
I'm completely stumped. I can't see how they could be clash marks. Their symmetrical appearance seems to fly in the face of any kind of random...
As others have said, this coin was damaged/altered outside the Mint.
No. The thin, abnormally weak lettering is due to recession of the field portion of the die. This is "design-devouring die wear".
It wasn't struck through anything. The weakness is entirely due to die deterioration.
Good point.
It's impossible to say whether this had help. I have seen several in-collar triple strikes, so it's not hard to conceive of an in-collar...
Most off-metal and wrong planchet errors are struck on blanks. That's because the undersized blank betrays no sign of passage through the upset...
I'll try to remember. They don't appear very often. Some of these errors, like the one I've shown, have an incomplete pattern of copper...
This coin also shows an abnormal pattern of upset. For what it's worth, this coin was extracted from a PCGS slab.
Here is one of several cents I own with a bulls-eye pattern of copper deposition (or zinc exposure): [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
If the blemish is truly raised, then it could be an accidental die scratch. There is no way to establish what might have caused it. Your photos...
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