Lol it's in that condition because of the error that makes no sense lol....its melted so how good shape do u think it could be what?
I'm not saying it has to be a mint error but logical reasons would help determine that other then welding and gunk ok
Methinks you don't understand what the word "logic" means. Especially when it comes to the minting process.
Ok but it's not an error. Lord knows what it is but it didn't come from the mint like that. That was the original question. You wouldn't listen though.
Not an error. It's post mint damage. Something happened to it within the 77 years it left the mint and has been in circulation. It has to have happened at the mint for it to be an error.
You obviously won't take the correct info from the knowledgeable here, so I will take this another direction. How could this even have possibly happened in the mint? throw this in front of a welder and I think he'd say MIG. The only one who knows how this occurred is the man who damaged it.
You can go waste your money and send it to a TPG. See how that goes, (except its much cheaper to get the correct info here.)
Hi.. I'm a Mint Error Specialist. Been collecting and attributing Errors for almost 35 years now. Since I have studied the minting proccess of how coins are made and also understand how all the known mint errors occur I can confidently tell you that what you have shown us is definitely not a mint error. Good luck in trying to figure out how the damage occurred.
He's probably now going to tell me to "get a life" when they don't know how to accept the fact that they are wrong.