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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2541267, member: 1892&quot;]After contemplation:</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin 1, I&#039;m convinced is a postmint hit after seriously considering Mint-related possibilities. It takes a lucky hit to damage the outer layer of a Zlincoln without splitting/cracking it, but this has to be that lucky hit. Nothing else would distort the letters in that fashion - there&#039;s just no way to make metal flow into that configuration with a normal - even a light normal - strike. TES_o, and RIB in PLURIBUS, are smashed into a shape no die can make them. There is corresponding scuffing/flattening on the appropriate opposite point of the obverse. I&#039;m thinking this one became a shim, maybe involuntarily, but a heavy pressure was applied to it without any horizontal movement.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin 3 seems plainly an artifact of die deterioration to me. Perhaps a combination of wear and die subsidence (definitely some of the latter), but an old die doing what old dies do either way. The reverse die seems a bit misaligned along the 7:00-1:00 axis, making it &quot;light&quot; in the area of the obverse which shows the most distortion, which may have been part of it as the corresponding area of the reverse then sucked up more metal for the larger rim than was its&#039; normal due.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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