The letters read backward, which means they are incuse. Which in turn means that a cent was pressed into a substance that was on the surface....
It's a significant error, worth up to $80.
Soak it in acetone, and the glue will dissolve or turn milky. It's definitely not an error.
It's a misaligned core. Instead of being placed completely in the hole, the core partly overlapped the ring when it was struck.
It's glue. Someone pressed a cent into the glue while it was still soft.
It may be a cent struck on an unplated planchet. But these errors are notoriously difficult to authenticate, especially from a photo. What you...
It is indeed an uncentered broadstrike. Nice find.
The strike wasn't particularly weak. Instead, it shows severe die deterioration.
It's a fake. The obverse was ground or machined off.
It may indeed be missing the obverse clad layer. You should weigh it. If authentic, it would be about 0.4 grams underweight, i.e., around 1.9 grams.
Most of the obverse clad layer split off after the strike. It was preceded by a "clamshell separation", rather than a "clamshell lamination"....
This is by far the most common date for a dime-stock quarter. Evidently an entire strip of dime stock went through the quarter blanking press....
I don't recall any. I would think it's a rare bird.
Specifically, it is an uncentered broadstike.
Looks like a doubled die from here.
I don't think it is genuine. As others have remarked, there is no metal flow in design elements bordering the coin's edge, and the reverse...
Agreed. But maybe the edge was ground off afterward. At any rate, the description outlines a dubious-sounding coin.
Sounds like it was dipped in acid.
The first dime shows finning of the rim. This is caused by abnormally high overall striking pressure, or increased localized striking pressure...
I've seen many acts of vandalism that are identical to your coin. You will find it seriously underweight. The exposure of the copper core along...
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