Any guesses? 2012D

Found this guy and at first I was thinking PMD, but no, not up close. The gouge looking thing starts and stops at precisely the rim of the coin to the the edge of the shield and the I is minted on top, not below the strange looking thing. It kinda looks like someone tried to glue the coin back together lol.

 

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Split plate doubling.

 

What do you mean doubling? I'm talking about that giant "split" if that's what it is, but no doubling as far as I can tell. It's a strange looking thing that I'm almost certain happened during or before the minting process. I'd guess it was a gouge of some sort but it's also filled with some sort of glue looking stuff so I haven't the foggyest what it is.

 

He was reffering to the date.

That other issue is definitely interesting. Can you provide a picture of the entire reverse also.

Edit* or a line of adhesive like the others have mentioned!

 

Nice. I'm guessing some strange plating issue that occurred during the minting process. I just don't know what to call it.

Edit* or a line of adhesive like the others have mentioned!

 

that long line looks like glue to me .. but it's early

 

looks like dried hot glue. pick it off with your fingernail...

 

I agree,It's glue or some sort of dried soda/beer on the coin.

 

I agree with glue.

 

Looked like a stain to me.
But like others have said. It's something stuck to the coin.

 

Ha! Who would have thunk? It came right off. Maybe cuz it was late or something but I could have sworn there was a definite deep scratch underneath that "glue". It looked to me like said glue was simply inside the gouge. I think I might have even wiped it and it didn't come off. Guess I was being to gentile.

 

Thank you for your honest response. In the beginning I also thought I saw something. That was before I had my coffee of course

 

So you got the answer you hoped, then argued against it, then asked for the original answer back.... THAT IS DOUBLING

 

No. His original question was about the issue on the reverse. He thought he had some kind of error. It was just glue. The issue with the date is NOT A DOUBLED DIE... It is DDD - Die Deterioration Doubling! So your reponse is totally incorrect!
So stop giving the wrong information!

 

So you were looking through the material and thinking there was some error underneath.

Have you ever looked through a glass with or without water. or even plastic. Things on the other side can get distorted both visually and colorwise. If the glass is colored, the object will have color, etc. Color, light, image distortion, etc

 

You seem to be on top of it

 

Yes, what I persieved to be the scratch was in fact the contact point of said glue onto the surface of the penny. I'm still not used to seeing things under a microscope. You ever play that game where someone shows you something magnified by 100x and you have to guess what it is? It's a little something like that. Looking at a semi transparent material that magnifies something yet again will definitely play tricks on your eyes.

 

Magnification can be a good thing. Viewing things at 100x is not useful.

 

Unless you're looking at microstructures of glass bonded ceramics and need to determine the morphology of the recrystallized mullite. Then 100x is a good thing. But for coins, not so much.