surface film effect!?!?

The last photo you posted doesn't look anything like yours. Would you mind giving us the link for this coin?

Unfortunately, we get a lot of people who think they've found something unusual and think it must have come from the Mint because all the other coins they've seen don't look like it. Sadly, most of them are so intent on finding some kind of error that they don't give any thought to the fact that it is probably just something that happened while in circulation. In most cases, the simplest answer is usually the correct one.

I remember one occasion (not these forums) when someone swore they saw the face of Jesus on a coin.

Chris

 

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No worries I am happy! I listed the link above on striking errors. Before I even posted the thread I checked it with that site which was provided by one of the members here. Yes I know the one example I posted is more dramatic. Its the only example I can provide. Also by no means would I ever be ever angry over responses just disappointed (LOL).

 

When I checked the site it described the shine etc, which I first observed. I then took a photo of the coin which showed more. I then used lighting and turned the coin at different angles and saw what I thought to be letteri

 

Lettering (darn phone).

 

Oh, maybe I should have said partial lettering; thought I did. I did say I am crazy. I have a college artist that stated it appears to be partial lettering as well, but we are not coin guys (gal).

 

I see no evidence of surface film doubling, a surface film afterimage, or surface film transfer in the dime that leads off this thread. This link provides more information on these types of surface film effects:

http://error-ref.com/surface-film-effects.html

 

Thank you! That is where I got the example from and I also listed that site earlier on in the thread. Thay can't all be as fantastic as the example, but if you drink three Rum and cokes and squint real hard .....
I first looked at the site before I would even post such a coin-I tried

 

So you all don't think I am to crazy: red arrows point to what I thought was the outline of the President on the first photo with the red blk arrows pointing to a die crack. The second photo the red arrows are pointing to faint outlines of partial lettering. This is what I thought to be a grease strike through-left over grease that left these impressions from the previous coin struck.
When you look at the coin it is quite nice and shiny with no apparent blemishes, but when turned at an angle I saw a different hue which prompted me to investigate it further. The photos I took showed way more than the eye can see so I then looked up the striking errors referenced above before I posted anything

 

My opinion remains unchanged. You may have spots of variable reflectivity (possibly due to "grease") but this falls far short of any surface film effect.

 

Ok, thank you Sir and thank you very much to take the time to reply and look at it! I just wanted everyone to not think I was to crazy and know I looked it up first. Wish it was more, at least a grease strike and die crack lol.