The TY is incuse in the die. The fields clash together, leaving a slightly raised TY on the reverse die, which strikes the incuse clashed letters....
The layer came off post-strike. The damage on the front and back might have been caused by someone intentionally pulling off the clad layer.
Hammer job. PMD.
Good research my man. It was wrong of him to clean/dip the coin and then list it as BU for $1000 more. That's very dishonest, but typical eB** crap.
Come on red. If it's not an obvious fake, you need to at least tell us what makes you think/know it is. We're here to learn. Tell me why it's...
Whizzed.
It looks like environmental damage to me. Maybe it spent some time underwater?
The edges of the planchet are raised before it is struck, by a separate machine. That's why coins with misaligned dies sometimes appear to have...
That means it was struck fully within the collar that creates the reeded edge. It just has a slightly misaligned die. It's within mint specs.
Does it have a reeded edge all the way around?
Pmd
I still think it's razor blade damage. There have been several coins like this posted here over the years. They aren't as common as dryer coins...
Sorry to be the one to disagree, but I think someone just took a very sharp razor to this poor coin.
Plate split doubling on the MM
What a you-know-what. Ebay should pull that immediately since he is trying to pass it off as an "error."
You would be lucky to get $2000 for it IMO. $7500 is way too high. Just IMHO of course. EDIT: I saw that it was a double denomination, rather...
No it isn't. Poor man's will have die deterioration doubling on the last 5.
I guess NGC doesn't even know the difference....
Weird. It actually looks legit, though a pic of the edge would be nice. Thin or foreign planchet I suppose.
Why would it break instead of bend? Is this some kind of metallurgy problem?
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