'83 Grease-filled & struck through..Looks like Abe was Shot in Head

At first sight I thought PMD...then looking closer I realized it was grease-filled and struck through. No "IN", traces of "TRUST", and trace of "I" in Liberty. Then there is the strike through that makes it look like Abe was shot through the head.

What do y'all think?

 

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That is so odd. Is the rim fully attached? Any of the zinc showing through?

 

Yes the rim is fully attached. There is no zinc showing through.

 

Here are some close ups of the rims where the "scratch mark" (if you will) meets at each end. The first is the left rim and the 2nd is the right rim.

 

Here are some more close ups for everyone.

The first one is a head shot.

This one is an ear shot.

This one is the front of eye/cheek.

This one is the forehead/hairline.

 

Non_cents will likely know. He's the guru of cents and cent errors. Sort of an unfortunate error for Old Abe, huh?

 

Pretty cool, kbaby!

I think you're right about it being a strikethrough.

Chris

 

Hmm. Im gonna guess and say the worlds biggest die crack. ever lol

 

I know that's probably wrong but I can't see grease flowing like that.

 

Maybe a wirebrush brisel ?

 

My reasoning for the grease filled would only be the area of "IN" and. TRUST is affected by the die crack/strike through. Not really sure why only the I in Liberty was affected by something. There is also the frequently found die cracks bilaterally on the reverse memorial ends extending to the rims.

 

i dont know what happened to it but i like it!

 

I was looking on Mike Ellis' facebook page and found someone posted a Morgan dollar with a "Retained Strike Through" that looked similar to mine. It was sold on ebay. Here is the link to ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Morgan-Doll...86?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item1c2f8bfaf2

The difference would of course be the location, and mine goes from rim to rim. Does this look right to y'all?

 

Hopefully Mike Diamond will chime in. I've sent him coins before for error confirmation/attribution. :thumb:

 

The curve in front of Lincoln's head resembles a struck through feeder finger, but no where near as bad as the ones shown on error-ref.com. Check this out:

http://error-ref.com/Stk_thru_FEEDER_Finger.html

 

Clutchy, there are all sorts of random pieces of debris that could cause a strikethrough like this.....a sliver of metal or wood or even a piece of fabric. I have a Kennedy half with a strikethrough which appears to have been caused by a piece of wire. I have strikethrough's where accumulated grease and debris compacted in the recesses of a die, fell from the die and then were retained by the coin after the strike. I also have a Morgan dollar with what appears to be a strikethrough from a piece of fabric, and it runs diagonally across almost all of the reverse of the coin. Yes, it appears to be a strikethrough, but unless the object remained embedded in the coin, we can only guess what the foreign object may have been.

Chris

 

Could it be a lamination error?