It's also quite possible that this coin is underweight, as metal can be lost during the interminable tumbling it endured.
I can echo the opinion of most in this thread and concur that this is post-strike damage. If its weight is normal, then this would be a variant...
The pits were not caused by environmental damage. This is a grease strike and the pits were caused by grit stuck in the grease layer.
This is an example of die abrasion. I suspect it represents accidental die abrasion, but I can't rule out intentional die abrasion.
It is a stiff collar error. A slightly off-center planchet was forced down into a collar frozen in the up position. This pushed up a flange on...
I doubt the date is correct. It looks like a copper-alloy cent to me. Weigh it and see.
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Please be advised that the major grading services are sometimes unable (or uninterested) in distinguishing between machine doubling and close...
The spread is too great for machine doubling and the sharp, intermittent penetration of first-strike details through the second strike is fully...
This would appear to be an in-collar double strike.
Another unlikely circumstance is the perfect alignment of your coin and the obstructing matter that covered it on the obverse face. Neither was...
It's certainly true that a perfect alignment can occur, but the chance is 1 in 360. Combine that with the smaller-than-expected expansion, the...
The "color change" appears to be crud stuck to the surface. Copper plating is not "pulled away" from the surface of a zinc cent. It splits due...
Existing terminology and definitions leave much to be desired. But we're stuck with it, so we might as well apply them as originally intended.
This all appears to be post-strike damage.
SuperDave, "cud" and "rim cud" are not the same. A cud or corner die break involves the rim gutter and at least a little bit of the adjacent...
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These cracks are too small to determine if they propagate primarily in the horizontal or vertical plane. All one can say is that the planchet was...
I can't tell from the photos if the row of U-shaped defects represents post-strike damage or damage to the die. If the latter, it could be damage...
I only see evidence of die deterioration. I've never heard the term "pull-away" and it describes a process that, as far as I know, is imaginary.
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