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<p>[QUOTE="LaCointessa, post: 3398523, member: 87186"]Welcome to CoinTalk [USER=101991]@Tony Taylor[/USER] !</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not one of the CoinTalk experts; but, I will say that it appears to me that sometime after the coin left the mint, someone began to bore a hole into the bottom of the reverse side of the coin. The bottom of the reverse side of the coin corresponds to the top of the obverse (front/heads) side of the coin. Apparently the person did not bore completely through the coin, but I can see where the metal on the head of Lincoln is pushed out toward us from the pressure used to bore on the reverse side. </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe that is all that happened to your coin and that it is not an error of any sort - simply damage caused by a human after the coin was minted.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope that information is correct. Our experts will stop by and correct me if I have not explained this properly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="LaCointessa, post: 3398523, member: 87186"]Welcome to CoinTalk [USER=101991]@Tony Taylor[/USER] ! I am not one of the CoinTalk experts; but, I will say that it appears to me that sometime after the coin left the mint, someone began to bore a hole into the bottom of the reverse side of the coin. The bottom of the reverse side of the coin corresponds to the top of the obverse (front/heads) side of the coin. Apparently the person did not bore completely through the coin, but I can see where the metal on the head of Lincoln is pushed out toward us from the pressure used to bore on the reverse side. I believe that is all that happened to your coin and that it is not an error of any sort - simply damage caused by a human after the coin was minted. I hope that information is correct. Our experts will stop by and correct me if I have not explained this properly.[/QUOTE]
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