I was thinking hammer job, but that would be unusual on a higher grade coin.
Yeah some people do some stupid things to coins. If you hadn't posted a pic of the side, I would have thought it was a small cud.
Oops, I was wrong. Thanks for pointing that out. I think the coin the book wants you to look for is the business strike 1992 close AM, which was...
Someone might have hit it with a screwdriver and hammer. The metal has to go somewhere when it is hit. Up to the obverse is the path of least...
All proofs are "supposed" to be Wide AMs. Only the business strikes switched to close in 1993.
7 pages and we still know nothing. Maybe Mike will look at it?
The mint mark was just struck deeper into the die so it didn't deteriorate as fast as the rest of it. This is pretty common from when mint marks...
What's with the surface? It almost looks whizzed. It could be the camera I guess.
Slightly off center. About 5%.
It does look like lathe lines to me, but I could be wrong. That's just terrible that the mint would let that happen on a proof coin. SMH
Some guy has a hammer job cent for several thousand dollars. I'm disgusted that eBay still allows this to happen.
Check the date with your 'scope to see if it's altered. Maybe someone was experimenting on it. I'll be following this thread to see what happens.
Possibly unintentional, but this is just a "hammer" job coin where another coin made the imprint.
It's probably just plated.
Oh my bad, I didn't notice the date of the post!! Sorry.
Just Coins please **** off already troll.
It probably ran through a drier a few times or is counting machine damage. That rim flattening is not consistent with a mint error.
I see reeding between the date and the actual edge of the coin, so this may be a glue job coin.
Do a search for hammer job or squeeze job. That's what you have. Just a bored person smashed two coins together.
It's a die variety because the lines are supposed to be machined off when the die is made.
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