Was trying my luck and hunting for irrefutable MS70 business strikes when I came across a coin that looked sooooo promising. The front was absolutely spotless and without dings dents or microscratches. The imprint was free from any DDD or splitting and the field is mirror shiny. Same was for the reverse, until I got to the bottom... Unfortunately my cellphone is busted, screen cracked in half, so I can't take pictures of the whole coin, just the old microscope shots for now. What's that cut underneath what I think is lamination error? its almost like something tried to cut a piece of the coin. BTW, this came from a fresh minty mint troll, so I highly doubt it's PMD.
BTW, this came from a fresh minty mint troll, so I highly doubt it's PMD. That’s the problem a troll had it lol. Jk. Cool lam!
@Pete Apple Take a look. It looks interesting. But there is a debate whether or not a Copper plated zinc cent can have an actual lamination. I want Pete to see it.
I see no evidence that the feature is any deeper than the copper plating. Therefore I think it is a plating peel. A lamination would need to go below the surface of the Zinc. The confusion arises, I think, when comparing to a thin lamination on a copper cent, because they look similar. In the case of the copper cent, there is nothing to peel other than the surface layer of the copper itself.
If it is a lam!!! Don’t do it. Just try and get a better pic. Does it move!!? Paddyman98 has a few of those guys. Maybe not the shielded cent but he has some nice lams
I'm still curious as to what this is? because it's not part of the lamination lift, it's a heavy strike of some sort, one that from the looks of it could have easily cud the penny but from the angle and the and the lack of any kind of damage on the other side it looks like it flipped off somehow. Whatever stuck it must have been blazing fast.
