Unfortunately, ANACS slabbed what is most likely fake -- a squeeze job. A normal cent was placed between a struck cent on the reverse and some...
The clad layer split internally along the horizontal plane, folded over, and was struck into the coin. The clad material fell out after the...
Glue.
This appears to be die damage.
The radial or pinwheel scratches indicate that the obverse was machined. I don't know what kind of device creates this pattern, but I see it all...
Herbert's terminology is a mess. Many "major die breaks" are trivial in size. He never defines, nor even mentions, what a "minor die break"...
Incorrect, kanga. A "rim cud" is a die break that carries away part of the die's rim gutter and nothing else. A cud proper involved the rim...
It could be a rim cud in which one end of the break isn't recognizable because of slight die tilt. Notice that only the upper left quadrant has a...
It's also straddled by a retained interior die break, or at least an area that sank in and is almost completely surrounded by a bi-level die crack.
Post-strike damage that primarily affects the edge and the obverse and reverse perimeter.
Yes, progressive indirect design transfer (a.k.a. ghosting, heavy design transfer, internal metal displacement phenomenon). A form of die...
It's stained, with possibly some residue of the responsible substance. It's not an error.
Machine doubling.
You can get a very similar effect when a large, multi-element dropped filling is struck into a coin. But the well-defined margins of the...
It's probably worth $50 - $75. Not worth getting graded. If graded, there's no telling what sort of label will be affixed to the slab. The most...
As others have said, the quarter was vandalized outside the mint while the cent has a genuine curved (concave) clip.
What you have are a set of normally-oriented, incuse letters. There are two possible culprits: 1. The coin was struck through a very thin piece...
As certain others have concluded, these are contact marks from another cent. It's not an error.
Many other kinds of die deformation errors show the same pattern, in that you find a single level of severity. For example, the 1943-S "goiter"...
Because the design creeps outward past the edge of the coin. If people want to use "flared die face" that's fine too.
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