Looks like another coin's reed edge got pressed onto the obverse of this coin. Guessing it is PMD, but wonder if it could have happened at the mint as a strike through? Thanks for looking.
Def not a clash. Think of how the reverse is...what part of the reverse die would clash on the obverse to make that?
It is definitely PMD, but I don't think it was caused by the reeded edge of another coin. Imagine someone trying to roll the edge of another coin so perfectly even across the face of this Kennedy. Have you ever seen a reeded edge made up of perfect squares spaced that far apart? Chris
To my admittedly bad eyes they seem to be about the same size as the reeds on half dollars. I wouldn't rule out another source though.
The corners are too perfectly square, and the squares are too far apart. You won't see reeds like this on any coin. I just examined a raw specimen of an uncirculated Kennedy, and not only are the valleys narrower than the width of the reeds, but the reeds taper from the edge of the rim to the top of the reed. There is no way a round coin could leave an imprint that straight. Chris
Good discussion guys, thanks for weighing in. I took another half and marked the edge with a magic marker and made an imprint on a piece of paper. Then cut the paper and laid it next to my coin and took some pictures. I too, can't figure how a round coin made such a straight imprint. The coin would have to have rolled across the face of my coin in a perfectly straight line. But, the spacing on my test imprint looks the same as my coin. One thing I noticed is the imprint is tilted as if the top of the offending coin (if that was the source) was tilted inward toward the center of my coin. Just a theory, let me know what you think of the new "evidence"!
Well when did this occur? Was it in a mint bag, with another coin positioned against it, with the weight of all the others on top of it without displacing the angle of contact? Or is it some kind of post mint vice job? It does look like a half edge, and the paper experiment seems to prove that.
Could be a strike-through of a broken off finned edge. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/someone-chained-the-entrance-to-independence-hall.259053/
