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1966 lmc struck through error ?

Okay any body out here seen anything like this looks like a part from the coin press right under the obverse is the same design on the reverse has any one seen this thanks looks like a pin of some machinery

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  • tincuptincup Posts: 5,334 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is the artifact 'raised' above the coin field? Or... is it a depressed area on both sides?

    ----- kj
  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 35,813 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks raised.

  • @tincup said:
    Is the artifact 'raised' above the coin field? Or... is it a depressed area on both sides?

    Optical illusion huh. Yes the obverse and the reverse are both depressed thanks for the replies

  • Someone from the mint would know if it was a pin off the machine press as you rotate the coin 180 "degrees the pin looking marks are right in line with each other on both sides

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That does not pass the 'common sense' test....both sides indented, same orientation... I am leaning toward PMD on this one....Cheers, RickO

  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,914 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PMD IMO

    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • tincuptincup Posts: 5,334 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Count me in the group with post mint damage also.

    ----- kj
  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 35,813 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If it's depressed, it's PMD

  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmlanzaf said:
    If it's depressed, it's PMD

    Sure is depressing...

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,256 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It appears that there are surface disruptions at the ends of the imorint, and also, if it were some sort of "pin" on the planchet then it would have been struck entirely into the coin.

    All signs point to PMD.

  • OldhoopsterOldhoopster Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There appears the be raised, displaced metal around parts of the dents. That's a giveaway it was caused by an impact and not a strike through

    Member of the ANA since 1982

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