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<p>[QUOTE="non_cents, post: 1851235, member: 30970"]Have you ever seen a "squeeze job" on a Lincoln Cent? Here is an example of one. <img src="http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/coop49/Vise_Squeezed_Cent.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p> You can get more detail on a coin than you think, either by squeezing a coin or hammering it. In addition, a brockage would only affect 1 side of a coin. the other side would appear normal. Your coin has the characteristic appearance of a coin that was damaged on one side from being set down on a hard surface and hit by another object. Error-ref shows what a true full brockage looks like (which I think is what you say your coin is) <a href="http://error-ref.com/brockage--full.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://error-ref.com/brockage--full.html" rel="nofollow">http://error-ref.com/brockage--full.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This is just my opinion, but if it were my coin, I wouldn't send it in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="non_cents, post: 1851235, member: 30970"]Have you ever seen a "squeeze job" on a Lincoln Cent? Here is an example of one. [img]http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/coop49/Vise_Squeezed_Cent.jpg[/img] You can get more detail on a coin than you think, either by squeezing a coin or hammering it. In addition, a brockage would only affect 1 side of a coin. the other side would appear normal. Your coin has the characteristic appearance of a coin that was damaged on one side from being set down on a hard surface and hit by another object. Error-ref shows what a true full brockage looks like (which I think is what you say your coin is) [url]http://error-ref.com/brockage--full.html[/url] This is just my opinion, but if it were my coin, I wouldn't send it in.[/QUOTE]
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