Is this actually "damage?"

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  1. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

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  3. Cascade

    Cascade CAC Variety Nerd

    How could it be. Its under most of the devices. Strange coin
     
  4. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    It's offered at about a third of retail for the grade, and frankly if I'd had the disposable income I'd have bought it on sight.
     
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  5. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins Supporter

    $1350? I'd rather go to IHOP.......
     
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  6. cpm9ball

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    My first thought is that it was struck through a piece of canvas. I don't know.

    Chris
     
  7. DysfunctionalVeteran

    DysfunctionalVeteran Oddly enough

    Looks like blast damage.

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  8. Seattlite86

    Seattlite86 Outspoken Member

    Question: if it were struck through something, wouldn't things like the stars on the obverse show some malformation?
     
  9. Pickin and Grinin

    Pickin and Grinin Well-Known Member

    Do I see the code correctly did they give it a 92, which would be cleaning?
     
  10. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    It's 98.
     
  11. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    I'm still wrapping my brain around it; might be possible for the metal to have forced its' way in past what looks like rough cloth weave although your point is stuck in my head as well. The certainty to me, though, is you couldn't create that look on the coin postmint without damaging the stars.
     
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  12. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins Supporter

    Give it an 86.......New York speak.
     
  13. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins Supporter

    And for you folks that don't know? Google, and old age, is your friend....... devil.gif
     
  14. Paddy54

    Paddy54 Well-Known Member

    This is definitely not damage as far as pmd. This was done before the coin was struck or during . I'm in the damaged platchet group.
    And Ken the only thing you can get at IHOP is silver dollar pancakes .
     
  15. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins Supporter

    Yeah? Try to 'hop' out of there after breakfast..........I'm lucky if I can move my over taxed butt........:)
     
  16. BadThad

    BadThad Calibrated for Lincolns

    Agree with the cloth. Perhaps it struck a few coins and poked some holes in it...then it struck this one. Could be a mint employee caught the others but this one slipped though.
     
  17. kazuma78

    kazuma78 Supporter! Supporter

    I bet it could get resubmitted as an error or strike through
     
  18. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    The stopper for me is, that old, coarse cloth was tough. The smallest fragment forced into the star recess of the die would have made a visible impression.

    I'm fascinated by this coin. :)
     
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  19. Cascade

    Cascade CAC Variety Nerd

    My off the cuff guess is that the planchet was hit with some kind of hammer or something before the strike.
     
  20. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    Was it struck through a cleaning rag?
     
  21. mynamespat

    mynamespat Well-Known Member

    Maybe a die clash thru a cleaning rag?
     
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