Maybe you can't tell by the pic, but the under the "cut" a thin layer peeled off apparently before it was struck. No it is not cut in half. It looks like a lamination error in the planchet to me. The details are struck into the lowered part, so I don't think it could have happened any other way. Should I scan it at a friend's house or something?
Took this one at a slight angle to show the lamination damage. The camera did not want to focus, but I managed this one even though I picked up a bad reflection.
Have you checked the weight of this coin? If it is a lamination it would be underweight. With the edgers being as crisp as they appear to be this might be struck through a foreign object rather than a lamination issue. Richard
The coin suffered from a Lamination separation (peel) otherwise called a De-Lamination Error after the strike not before the strike! This is evident due to the details wiithin the lamination peel. Due to coins being struck under such high pressure, the metal inside becomes more dense and the actual details on the surface of the coin are transferred sub-surface. Therefore, a layer of the coin's surface can peel away but still have details visible inside the peeled area. This is why that you can restore the Date on a Dateless Buffalo Nickel with Nick-A-Dte! Frank
