This coin has been damaged/altered outside the mint. A sure indicator is that metal overlaps the motto IN GOD WE TRUST. That's impossible in a...
In the interest of fairness, a number of full-sized, brass foreign planchets are known among Lincoln cents. I have not heard of any among Indian...
It's a spot of subsurface corrosion that raised up a blister and that blister then popped. The corrosion could have been due to an impurity...
This is not true. There are a fair number of full-diameter Lincoln cents struck on foreign planchets. If the planchet approximates the diameter...
Most conventional coin dealers know diddly-squat about errors. I bet none of them weighed the coin, let alone performed a specific gravity test....
A die crack with a few small die chips straddling it.
A die chip would be the likeliest explanation.
I would say that a doubled die is the likeliest explanation for these furrows.
The top dime looks discolored and corroded. The bottom dime was rolled and squeezed.
Definitely acid etched. I've seen many similar coins with the same sort of acid damage, including the recessed copper core.
It's a manifestation of die wear that mainly occurs on copper-plated zinc Lincoln cents.
It is possible to turn a cent almost any color, given the right environmental conditions. The simplest test (unfortunately invasive) is to scrape...
Lots of die chips and a few blind-ended die cracks. The large number of die chips should boost the coin's value at least a little bit.
A die chip. Worth a buck or two.
It's probably just a discolored area left after a layer of dried glue or other gunk was peeled off.
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It is definitely an authentic off-metal error. Although there's some wear on the cheek, I'd venture it's worth close to $1000. As others have...
I agree that doubled dies, RPM's, repunched dates, etc. are die varieties. Cuds, die chips, die gouges, die dents, die abrasion, and other forms...
This form of incuse doubling is fairly common on copper-plated zinc cents and can also occasionally be found on 1943 steel cents. I've never...
Definitely die clash. An incuse impression of the eagles' necks can be seen on the obverse.
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