I had a box of just 2022 pennies and I found a bunch of these. It's hard to get good pictures but this was the best I could do. It's an anomaly to the upper left of WE coming from the rim. It's incused. I know it's very very minor and nothing to write home about but it's driving me crazy trying to figure these out. If I had just found one I'd have chalked it up as PMD, but I've found dozens of these. They're all exactly the same in exactly the same spot on all the pennies. Would they be some kind of tiny strike-throughs?
I'm not sure what "box" these came in but it seems likely that it's a die chip and these dozens of coins all came from the same die. Depending on when the chip happened there could be a million of them.
Do I need special glasses like "Superman"? I don't see what you're looking at. The "die chip" At the top of the Obverse?
It does not look "Incused" in the photo. According to the shadows I can see. A die chip will leave a small raised bump on the surface of a coin, but you said the abmormality is Incuse/indented into the surface. That could be caused by a foreign object being added to the die in some way.
It was a box of pennies from the bank. It was filled with rolls of only 2022s (which I wasn't really happy about btw).
Ok. I'll look at it again when I get back from my doctor appointment this morning. All I have is a 10x loupe so it could be raised rather than in use.
Ok. Thanks. I know they're spenders. I'm just trying to learn as much as I can so I'll know in the future for sure what are spenders and what are keepers. Fewer times I'll feel the need to get on here and ask. A couple of years ago I almost accidentally spent some pennies with some really nice strike-throughs. Trying to avoid that.
That's exactly what you should do. I often smile when I see a question I once asked being asked again. Similar learning curves...finds...all in the spirit of building a fine collection. All good!!
