I bought this coin mostly because I think the 31-D is under-appreciated in unc. On first look, I wondered why it did not get a 64. It is a 63RB. Then I noticed Abe's lapel. That is not a scratch (scratches?). I am pretty sure the bottom one is a lamination or at least part of it. If I catch it at the right angle, I can see what I think is the piece coming up. However, thee is also an indentation on the bottom left of the anomaly. Does anyone have any ideas what is going on? Lamination? Strike through? Other?
looks like post mint damage to me. If this were a common date coin it probably wouldn't have made it into a slab Richard
I agree with ziggy on post mint damage. Alot of lams. are triangular in shape, but I can't tell where its peeling at. Maybe a different angle would help...
Dick I want to make sure I'm looking at the same things you're talking about. If I understand correctly there are 2 things. 1 - is in between the 2 red arrows. That looks more like a die crack to me than anything else because it looks raised. 2 - and I don't know what this is, is in between the 2 turquois arrows. The top arrow points to a piece of the lapel that almost seems to have broken away from the rest of it. And the bottom arrow points to what I assume you are calling the depression to the left. It doesn't look like a lamination to me or a strike through. But then I don't know what else it could be because it definitely looks like a small piece of metal has broken away from the top edge of the lapel and been impressed into the coin. So maybe it is both, a lamination that started to break away and then was struck through. Of course if those aren't the areas you're talking about then I'm all confused.
1- I do not see anything at your red arrows except his shirt. 2- You have described the lower mark exactly as I see it. One angle looks like a strike through and another looks like a lamination. There is definitely a wedge shaped piece coming loose from the coin. However, the second (top) mark I am referring to is directly beneath your turquoise arrow pointing down. Your arrow starts about the midpoint and covers the bottom half of the mark.
What I am looking at is in between the red arrow points, what I assumed you were saying was not a scratch, the shiny line running vertically. That looks like a die crack to me. I could see nothing under where my arrow is, only in between them.
In this blow-up, your turquoise arrow is sitting on the bottom half of the line in the top green circle and it is pointing at the thing in the lower green circle. Alternatively, I drew a green line directly over it from a section of your mark-up.
Ahhhhh - now I see. In the original pics that just looked a dark streak of toning like all of the others. In your blow up it looks like damage, it would also explain the other mark in the lapel which the blow up also shows much better. Look closely at those marks now in the blow up. You can see both sides of the edge of another coin, or some other object. They are two entirely separate marks though caused by separate blows to the coin. The one in the lapel struck a more glancing blow at an angle on the coin and pushed that piece of the lapel to the side. That's why you were thinking lamination, so was I of course. The larger, deeper mark above struck more perpendicular and thus pushed metal to the side forming that ridge on the right.
