Punch marks (on the coin) would be incuse. The anomalies on your coin appear to be raised which could indicate die chips or die breaks.
I don't get the Harry Potter reference (I'm too old) but it looks like a die crack to me.
Those are what we call 'mintmarks'. They tell us which Mint the coin came from. D = Denver (except for gold coins 1838-1861 where the 'D'...
Probably die deterioration.
This seems to be happening a lot more lately. Perhaps it is a societal thing where people have lost their sense of moral obligation and don't feel...
Cool! Even the Federal Reverse Bank number (12) is divisible by 3. $10 sounds like a bargain. This note is valued at $60 in VF in my 10th...
I have never been to the Long Beach show and I cannot go this year. I hope to make it to that show one of these days. I would recommend that you...
Reaper, for general use 5X to 7X is adequate. For variety or error searching I would recommend 10X.
If it is attracted to a magnet it is fake. So the weight is the same as a genuine coin? What about the diameter?
For the record, hubs are used to make dies (Master Dies or Working Dies). Working Dies are used to strike coins. Conder is correct about the...
The flat, shelf-like shape of the doubling leads me to say it is strike doubling.
Looks like a grease-filled die. A bit of grease got into the last digit of the date on the die so that digit did not get fully struck up.
I don't think you quite grasp the point I was trying to make. What you are calling "double striking" is not the same as a doubled die. Double...
You have 12 cents worth of coins there.
Wrong again. What you are describing is a double-struck coin (i.e., a coin that was struck twice by the dies). The OP thinks he has a doubled die...
A scratched 2000-D Nickel should be worth right around 5 cents.
It would help if you could get an accurate weight of the coin (to the nearest 0.01 grams) so we could tell if any metal has been removed (e.g., by...
I didn't notice that DDO was for Proof coins only. Good catch.
That looks like strike doubling to me.
That's a good example of a cud. Nice find!
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