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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 18591102, member: 77814&quot;]Many newer collectors look at one particular section ignoring everything else around it.&nbsp; If a zincoln has a ton of blisters all over the surface ppl for some reason see a blister or ripped surface around the mint mark and think it must be a doubled mint mark whilst ignoring all the other indicators all around it.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look around, you&#039;ll see there are other gouges going the same direction as that one.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1537807[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>of course the unknown answer is how did it get so damaged like that.</p><p>One can speculate or even test damaging coins (which I did for a long time).&nbsp; But slipping or moving by the bottom of your foot a cent on a rough surface can create similar effects.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Getting the exact effect would require the exact environment, effort, surface, etc.</p><p>And of course, it may have been multiple instances of various damaging effects to get it to that point.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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