1955 D

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  1. Hunter_123

    Hunter_123 Active Member

    Extra D at bottom right of Lincoln?
     

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  3. paddyman98

    paddyman98 I'm a professional expert in specializing! Supporter

    Very interesting.
     
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  4. Danomite

    Danomite What do you say uh-huh

    Can you post a closer picture of just the mintmark and the other mark?
     
  5. Hunter_123

    Hunter_123 Active Member

    I will, but it will be this afternoon.
     
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  6. CaptainMac

    CaptainMac Gotta Love Those Errors and Varieties!

    Woah, that is very interesting, never seen a mintmark that far off.
     
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  7. paddyman98

    paddyman98 I'm a professional expert in specializing! Supporter

    Only if it is a Mint Mark. Could be a plachet flaw or old damage that only looks like a mint mark. But I don't think it's a MM.

    Let me try @Rick Stachowski
    Anything of interest?
     
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  8. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

    It doesn't look like a mintmark to me. It actually looks like a bubble bursted and left that looking like a mintmark. It is older and worn.
     
  9. Pickin and Grinin

    Pickin and Grinin Well-Known Member

    Not sure how a bubble could form of a die, Although it does seem to look like a D I think it is damage and is simply displaced metal.
     
    Last edited: Jan 22, 2020
  10. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    IMO it's not a D. Whatever made the impression in the center,
    pushed the other metal around to form a rim, and it just coincidentally
    looks like a D.
     
  11. Clawcoins

    Clawcoins Damaging Coins Daily

    i think it's just a crater impact
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  12. Treashunt

    Treashunt The Other Frank

    could be, remember last year was the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing
     
  13. Rick Stachowski

    Rick Stachowski Motor City Car Capital

    It's the dark side of the moon ..
     
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  14. Hunter_123

    Hunter_123 Active Member

     

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  15. Larry E

    Larry E Well-Known Member

    I have something similar any thoughts 15798380502271961465136.jpg 15798381657781113651263.jpg
     
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    Shrews1994 Collecting is my passion.

  17. Clawcoins

    Clawcoins Damaging Coins Daily

    not similar at all

    What you have a zinc core lincoln cent. They are very susceptible to minting problems and later circulation problems. In this case the mint mark is imploding from corrosion. Look up (a) split plating; (b) plating blisters; (c) occluded gas bubbles; (d) corrosion domes and you'll learn a lot just from that. From mid 1982 to current they changed the composition from basically mostly Copper to mostly zinc with a thin 8 micron copper plating.

    The mostly zinc composition ends up reacting with the copper plating and creates corrosion when exposed to various compounds ... So any break in the surface can start a corrosion process in other locations on the cent. Your cent has several corrosion spots.

    here I circled in Yellow the major corrosion spots (in various phases of corrosion) on your cent. The Die Deterioration long spot looks like it's corroding too.
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    fyi, it is always best to start your own thread.
     

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  18. Larry E

    Larry E Well-Known Member

    Makes sense but will look up split plating
     
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