I'm wondering what y'all think about this error coin on eBay. I'm not thinking about bidding on it, but I do think it's interesting. https://www.ebay.com/itm/124497740611?ViewItem=&item=124497740611 Seller says "Word UNUM, & Part Of Wheat Branch At Bottom Of Lincoln Plus Part of Letter Shape Of An L. The Errors Are Raised Not Recessed In Coin. Doubling And Tripling On The Word Unum With Backward N. " Can anyone explain how this might happen? And I'm sorry, I still don't know how to do this without a link.
Letters are backwards and incused. It's a vice job. Not a mint error of any kind. It was done by someone after it left the US Mint.
That is likely not an error but rather PMD. (Post-mint damage.) That looks like what is referred to as a "vise job". It was smashed against another coin under great pressure, as though in a vise. Didn't happen at the mint, so therefore it is PMD and not an error.
Aha. @paddyman98 beat me to it, while I was typing. I spelled "vise" correctly, though. (Vice is what the police clean up. A vise is ... well... you know. One of these.) I'm glad he confirmed that hunch I had.
Visi, veni,..vici....from the reign of E. Paddymanicus IXVIII.....as recorded by the lordmarcovan Herodotus 12262020....
I agree with the vi-e job, but that had been a really nice 1955 before someone damaged it. Too bad. Also, the letters sure look incused, not raised as the seller claims. Only an in-hand inspection can tell for sure I guess.