1945-S Liberty Walking Half dollar-what happened.

Please help me understand what happened to the obverse of this coin. Is this PMD? Thanks in advance.

 

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How about a few shots of the edge?

 

Maybe it was actually used as money at one time?

 

@James Rohleder
Can you be a little more specific about what it is that you see?

Chris

 

I believe he is asking about the concentric damage around the outer devices that appear to be coin roller tracks or somebody chucked it up in a step collet and gave up on doing some turning realizing how out of round and hopelessly un-flat it was?

 

James, too me, the scratch running from the sun to the I in Liberty looks like it was done by a coin rolling machine. IMO If you don't want it, send it to me. It's my birth year.

 

Some additional pictures to show near rim crevices. The edge appears OK.

 

It may have been done by a rolling machine and that is probable, but, it does have some marks on the rim which could have been left by it exiting a step collet when perhaps somebody tried a couple times to skim it with a hand graver. That may also explain the marks on the obverse face of the rim when it smacked into the cross-slide or whatever in the way slowed it. Maybe they were going to make something out of it?

 

It was in a collar. pmd

 

Sorry folks but those areas that you call coin damage, I believe are raised.
Here is a reference By Mike Diamond a member here.
http://www.error-ref.com/

 

Try again and maybe link directly to the exact page?

 

http://www.error-ref.com/raised-clash-marks/

This is the only entry he has with the word raised.

Splain, because I don't see and I also don't know what "It was in a collar. PMD", means.

 

Does anyone not see the crack around the edge too?!

 

The areas near the rims are deep grooves. The pictures really don't show the depth of the grooves that are about 1/4 of the depth of the coin.

 

Like this? If so it's a collar clash.

 

On the left side, do those appear to be tooling chatter marks or simply part of the coin's surface where whatever cut that did not touch?

 

Huh, thanks for clarifying, PMD coin roller.

 

It's true. It only takes you to the front page of the website. Not the link you intended too.