The obverse IS disturbed, but not in a good way. The surface around UNITED appears to be warped.
Evidently not. None of the many similar counterfeits I've encountered suffered a loss of surface luster.
Conder101 is absolutely correct. The reverse face was struck by a counterfeit die of relatively soft consistency while the obverse face rested on...
All of the grading services misdiagnose these errors. It's hard to understand, as proper understanding of these errors goes back well over a decade.
Your coin is an elliptical strike clip -- a striking error. The planchet was perfectly normal when it entered the striking chamber. An...
I've yet to see a bona fide elliptical clip on a zinc cent. Elliptical strike clips are well represented among zinc cents minted between 1989 and...
No offense taken. However, the OP reports that the affected area is raised relative to the surrounding normal design. That, plus the fact we can...
As others have said, it's glue. The reverse of another cent was once glued to the obverse face.
You can usually pick these up on eBay for $75 or so.
Yes, it's worthwhile. While generic capped die strikes are common and generally fetch only about $5, the as-yet unexplained doubling enhances...
It would not be surprising if the field-restricted struck-through error coincided with die scrapes travelling in the same direction. That's the...
Yes it would, and it does produce identical errors. The gritty paste clings to the die face and remains intact through several strikes at least....
Struck through a late-stage die cap. These are sometimes associated with peculiar forms of doubling
It's a "field-restricted struck-through" error. A gritty paste was smeared across the field portion of the die face, probably by a dirty feeder....
Specific die varieties and die errors typically end up in particular parts of the country. That was the case with the 1982 "no-P" dime.
If the diameter of the copper Barber dime is greater than the diameter of the normal silver dime, then the coin is almost certainly a counterfeit....
The 1998-P dime struck on "cent stock" has been incorrectly described by PCGS. Several such dimes are known and they were all struck on cut-down...
Again, any number of other dies show curved and straight die dents that were inflicted when the dies were soft and, as a result, the impacts...
There is no conclusive, or even persuasive evidence, that these are intentional die gouges or die dents. That's merely one possibility. There...
Keep in mind that these are not really "extra leaves" and there's no consensus over whether these represent intentional die alterations or...
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