While it could have been struck through a flake that detached from a struck cent, the clarity of the incuse lettering suggests it was more likely...
I never discussed this coin with BJ and had no idea that he had examined it. So his conclusions are entirely independent of mine.
I wouldn't necessarily be harder on ICG than some of the other services. I've found squeeze jobs in some top-tier slabs and every service...
Clash marks do not involve "one coin pushing onto another coin". It's about one die smacking into another die.
I'm sure everyone remembers this interminable thread: http://www.cointalk.com/t196652/ To my surprise, Rascal actually sent it to die...
It's a "dryer coin". The coin tumbled around in the fins of an industrial dryer for a prolonged stretch.
This is not machine doubling. It is an incuse form of die deterioration doubling. For some reason it pops up with unusual frequency among state...
As several others have remarked, this is a "die attrition error". At one time the die was misaligned toward the right and smacked repeatedly...
What you have is a bi-level die crack. Instead of being characterized by lateral spread (which produces a raised line), you instead have slight...
As most have said, it's an old squeeze job.
Rascal is correct. The "wire" appears simply to be a little bit of metal shaved off the "slide zone" during the second strike by the edge of the...
Relative to other striking errors, they're fairly common. Small indents like this have little market value, maybe a buck or two.
It's not a dryer coin. Someone ground off the obverse perimeter.
The dime has a small indent. An overlying planchet was struck into it.
I agree with the majority opinion which interprets this as an in-collar double strike. Nice find.
A die cap can come loose and rotate. Or it can come loose and shift to one side. Or it can do both simultaneously. Shifted cap strikes are much...
It was struck once through a rotated, late-stage die cap. This produces a set of normally-oriented, incuse design elements.
As others have indicated, this is an example of die deterioration.
It's some form of post-strike damage. The reverse face is in horrid condition, and I expect this is from the same forces that generated the...
I'm not sure what you're referring to. The proto-rim should be flattened where the other cent overlaps it. This would be true regardless of...
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