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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikediamond, post: 1627787, member: 1859&quot;]This coin was also posted on the Error Coin Information Exchange.&nbsp; Here&#039;s the answer I provided:</p><p><br /></p><p>I have three dimes struck by this malfunctioning press. It now looks like the press struck several others.&nbsp; I wrote an article about them many years ago for Errorscope. As best as I can tell, three hard objects stuck to the perimeter of the obverse die and impaled a dime planchet. This became a die cap and struck a succession of other planchets. Alternatively, the junction between the neck and face of the obverse die was damaged in three spots, which raised up a burr in each spot and these impaled the planchet. The hard objects or burrs also chipped the periphery of the reverse die in the same spots, presumably when a planchet wasn&#039;t fed into the press and prior to the creation of the die cap. This created corresponding reverse cuds.</p><p><br /></p><p>All the strikes are quite weak, although the extent of weakness varies. All seem to show a misalignment of the obverse die together with its cap (the brockage and die-struck reverse design are not perfectly aligned). It seems all the planchets were struck out-of-collar and slightly off-center.&nbsp; The thin curved groove on the obverse seems to be a struck-through error, perhaps a wire or a metal shaving that stuck to the working face of the die cap.&nbsp; This is a unique press malfunction that produced a series of dimes of surpassing strangeness.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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