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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3620206, member: 77814&quot;]&quot;an average hit&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>are you talking just one singular hit over the 56 years of potential circulation?</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe it took multiple hits?</p><p>Can you exclude more than one hit on the coin?</p><p>Can you or the OP provide a list of how it took all the scraps, scratches, stains and wear on every part of the cent .. was it during just one singular contact with something?</p><p><br /></p><p>Look at all the damage IN GOD WE TRUST took, and how the N was smooshed too?&nbsp; But just the N .. not all the other letters.&nbsp; How did that happen ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Damage can be inconsistent and uncorrelated on just one coin.&nbsp; If you hit one side with a hammer does the damage get automatically mirrored on the other half ?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at even the blurry image you can see some very tell-tale signs of damage and wear</p><p>[ATTACH=full]970330[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Notice that vertical rectangular indentation from the mid-top of the 3 to the lower part of the middle of the 3 ?&nbsp; which is over top the smooshed 3.</p><p><br /></p><p>Compare it to a billion of other coins with smooshed stuff and copper cents with metal displaced.</p><p><br /></p><p>one must realize that coins made for commerce can get damaged in unlimited ways, unlimited times by unlimited methods.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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