1959-D Stuck thur grease

He is 1959-D I found in a BU roll. I sure it was stuck thur grease

 

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What make you think that?

What make you think that? I don't see any evidence of it or I am missing it????

 

Me either. I do see what's known as woodgrain on your coin.

 

In hand you can tell

1st my camera don't show how discolored the obverse is it has a copper stripe thur it and the roll had been unopened since 1959.
and the reverse is gem bu.

and it was in the middle of the roll.so it is no the end coin.

 

I don't see any signs of a greased filled die i don't see any design elements taken out sorry. i do see a reddish color on the suit of Lincoln but I do not know what's that from.
JC

 

I am taking some new pictures today and will post them in the morning.

 

Are you trying to say that it was struck through grease because it was discolored?

 

By his comment it sure sounds like it.

 

jello,

I would venture to say that a contaminant got on the coin before or while being rolled with the other coins in the roll! That contaminant may have been grease or some other substance. The coin was not struck though grease from what I can see.


Frank

 

Here is some better pictures.

 

I see what your talking about with the discoloration, but I don't believe it's been struck through grease. I could be wrong but from my understanding, a coin struck through grease has weak points in the details. It almost looks like a weak strike, like when you find the cents and the lettering looks blurry. Or the date trails off, and the last digit is barely visible.

 

Like these coins:199? Lincoln Penny - Coin Talk

1919 and a 58D - Coin Talk - The first one on this page.

 

looks like a bad planchet to me... Earlier Lincolns are notorious for having zebra striped looking planchets... from what I remember it is from impurities in the planchets... not a strike through tho

 

34 I see what you saying but not all strike thur are missing detail. I have had it look at buy my Huntsville Coin club and they agree that it was a strike thur.
but we could not find what the substance was that was on the die maybe oil or wax???

 

Dutch maybe right.
I have always thought the planchett was made from a bad mix.

 

A simple explanation of what a struck thru is; 'Coins struck while there is extra or foreign material present will have indentations or features created by the additional material.'
Your coin does not exhibit those signs, does it?

 

Thanks for the info Jello I never knew that. If you don't mind me asking, Is there some sort of giveaway that it was struck through something, rather than a problem planchet, or toning?

 

Ok rock
then what made it look like this??

 

No 34

 

I don't see any signs that it was a struck thru. As mentioned in the previous posts it looks like a poor mixture in the planchet. Is there any elevated or incuse areas of the details that I should be looking at?