I'm trying to imagine a way this could be post mint and have not come up with it yet. Definitely something to hang onto get the conversation fired up.
Jump Back I'm here to learn. You know more than I so I'm sure you can explain how the 9 got "moved" post mint. The D smooch I can understand. And the 8 is rattled a bit, too. Learn me something, please.
blow it up by clicking Image gets bigger if clicked on~but I don't get this Post Mint Movement of Metal. (PMM M should be in the dictionary by now)
Hi, It's a special movement. To strike a number like that without make a hole, a big scatch or destroy completly the 9 seem to be impossible. Samething for the D. Plus, direction is different. Who know... :smile Thanks.
Special Hum....I'm hoping many knowledgeable someones will chime in on how to move two #'s between two #1's. The "D" could be just a victim. But this coin IS Special.
Come on you'all somebody ot something hit this coin and scooted the image Come on you'all somebody or something hit this coin and scooted the image - it has been smashed, scraped or otherwise damaged. Please, please look at more coins!!! (this is an easy one)
Definitely post-strike damage to the "9". Observe how the metal has been pushed up into a "cowlick" extending from the top of the loop.
I'm hoping to learn here. Whats confusing to me is how the damage seems to be so confined and still multi~directional. But HEY. I'm sure I have not been looking for Mint DamAge exclusively since I've never found a real 1955 DDO. Because I started stopping in at this place I can now tell a "Poor Man's" from a genuine......usuallly. (Ok~I've never had a REAL one in hand and there are many here that have.)hya: And better yet you do it in such a way as I don't feel like I'm wasting your time with my uninformed opinion. For that I thank you:hug:.
If you don't get this one and real quick you should run If you don't get this one and real quick you should run, not walk away from understanding errors and varieties - to spend any time on this coin is a waist of time - now if you really want to learn get a Cherry Pickers Guide by Fivas/Stanton, an Error Coin Encyclopedia by Margolis, read them, then read them again, then re-read them and learn to listen to what others are saying - we don't tell you these things for any other hidden motive!!!
More critics to come, I'm sure/hope. But the Pros I respect here have already given their evaluations. So keep it handy until others folks show up with likewise "examples" so it can become a die vanity/variety.
Post mint damage....also, the coin is environmentally damaged indicating that this coin may have been a metal detector find. The numerals could easily have been damaged by a stone in the ground or the trowel used to dig it up. There is nothing at the Mint that did this. Thanks, Bill
