No - it's been re-plated ....and not the best job, either
They're real, and I name the person they came from, an ex employee of the SF Mint.
....and neither does your cent. Everything you see as 'different' about it all occurred after it was already in circulation. Not an error coin...
It's damaged
I believe what you're seeing is just contact marks from it being in circulation. That's what his face looks like - the 'smooshed' area is...
ejection/mechanical doubling. Very very common, and not considered an error.
contact with something hard causes it - it's called a 'hit' or contact mark. There's no way to know exactly what it was that caused the damage.
No - and please try to orient the photos so that we don't have to turns our heads sideways. Still looks like a possible struck thru area....
Your lighting in the photo kinda hides the area you're talking about. Looks like a struck thru, probably, but please take another set of photos...
'as struck' No error. Slightly weak strike at the motto - very very very common.
It's a common planchet lamination on a silver war nickel. Not a transitional planchet.
Although I only have Medal Hubs, I have quite a variety of U.S. Mint Dies, and other medal dies. I will have some broken defaced US dies at the...
Thanks for that quote, Pete - For newer members here, the 'neck' referred to is the area below the die face, usually where the die base thins out...
...Hang on Sloopy - we'll get a real error on here at some point !
As mentioned by most of us, in various threads, the OP, among others, are using WAAAY too high a power loop to look for errors. It's a waste of...
I know that - but I thought you said that RT's were also done on dies. I was just trying to discuss the distribution of them. Are you saying...
Pete, I've enjoyed the discussion too - and I've learned from your article, and posts here. I'm sorry, but I can't use the term 'Likely' on those...
Nice example of a larger-than-normal die chip. Congrats.
No, it's not that I disagree with what you wrote, I just don't think those are RT pieces pictured - of course I could be wrong. If I didn't...
Thanks for the link - very very interesting, although I don't believe that those cents exhibit RT marks on them.
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