I could tell immediately that it was machined off by the second pic. Look at the perfectly symmetrical cutting lines all around the surface.
The clip is real. The rest is probably grease and some wear.
I do understand the minting process, but I thought that since off-centers are struck outside of the collar, that they would be considered to be...
It is just rolling machine damage. If the same type of rolling machine hit both coins, the damage would look the same.
I don't really understand. If the coin is in the collar, then it would be neither a broadstrike nor an off center right?
Off centers are types of broad strikes, aren't they?
It looks like a real clip.
Maybe heat damage.
The coin on ebay looks like a 61 or 62. It has some nasty bag marks on Liberty's neck and by the eagles wing. It looks possibly dipped as well....
It could have been a VERY small third clip that the strike filled in.
Very nice. Did you pull it from circulation?
It looks good to me.
Whoa. Maybe it was struck partial collar, then struck again off center? Too bad it got stuck in some kind of machinery after the strike and messed...
EDIT: Nevermind. I was mistaken.
It looks like it may be a polished die 006 making it appear to be a 005. The way the vertical bar comes out so far suggests this possibility.
Does the second one have a reeded edge? It looks like a possible broadstrike.
I agree. It's like a dropped grease blob, but whatever it was was harder than the grease we usually see. The word MEXICAN (which is what was...
It looks like a highly worn obverse die and a die crack on the reverse.
Definitely a struck in rim burr. You can clearly see the copper exposed where it peeled from and the shape of it.
It looks like a real doubled die, but because the VDB is on the sloped part of the neck, it could be an illusion created by machine doubling....
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