It's not a late die state - just rim smashing on a circulated coin.
ejection/mechancial doubling
Copper Plating bubble
You nailed it (the above post) It was probably done as a prelude to it being turned into a two-headed magician's coin.
Actually, it's been buffed against a wire bristle buffing wheel.
Yes, thru a very late stage, thinning, Capped Die. An earlier stage would have a brockage obv., but this is so late a stage that the capped has...
I think the term the TPG's use is Enviornmental Damage The coin has had the surfaces played with some way. Still looks buffed in the close ups,...
Both the Sacagawea and Presidential Dollars are struck on planchets that consist of a pure copper core, and outer layers of manganese. The Mint...
A photo of the whole reverse of the coin would be helpful, but it looks like, from your close ups, that the reverse has been 'brushed' to give it...
I think the term 'grease' is used instead of "machinery oil'. Kinda like 'clipped planchet' instead of 'incomplete planchet'
.....and, they're not found in circulation anyway.
First I've seen too - thanks for sharing it. One of the reasons why there is no POP report for mechanical errors (vrs. Die Varieties) is that...
There are two known Two-Tailed Washington Quarters, One known Two-Tailed Roosevelt Dime Two known Two-Headed Jefferson Nickels, with die damage...
The date was never there, so there's nothing to X-Ray. It was covered by the Die Cap that struck this coin.
The rims, which have been 'pinched', or rolled, and the rolling over the thin rim into the thicker rim you see, with the extra metal between the...
Within tolerance - very common to be 1 tenths of a gram + heavy or light - doesn't mean it's an error.
"Insider" - thanks for the kind words; hope I deserve them. However, I don't know who you are ?! Fred
Sometimes the coins get 'jammed' to one degree or another in the Edge Lettering Machine. The coin is already in the E L machine, but a coin ahead...
It's been plated.
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