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2014-P Cent indention question

I have looked through thousands and thousand of shield cents and have not
come across another coin that has this. and I don't know how it was produced.
along he bottom of the shield banner there are lower indention areas. it's the only place on the coin it happens.
any ideas?
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They can be contact "hit" after the coin was made or contact hits on the original planchet that were not completely struck out.
If the surface inside the depressions is the same color as the surface they are not hits. They may be plating bubbles.
Need better image w/o the glare. Try florescent light.
couple with non direct lighting. tried to show the depth of the recesses. they are on all four high stripes on the shield but nowhere
else
one other shot
Interesting. How many cents had these?
i've only found the one
Perhaps @FredWeinberg will chime in on this thread.... It certainly is an interesting anomaly. Cheers, RickO
I still have not found any good reason for this marking. and haven't come across another one yet after almost a half million pennies
I see the minor 'roughness' in the photos.
Is that what you mean by the 'indentation' areas?
Can't tell what it is from the photos, and also
due to it being in such a small area of the coin.
Could be from a few causes, but they would be
insignificant causes, imo.
sorry for the photo quality.
what interested me was along the bottom of the banner there are
indention marks into the shield stripes. never seen another shield with these marks.
even though seems like 80% of them always have some sort of crack on the upper left
edge of the shield. I quit pulling those.
My guess is that your coin was hit by something!
nah, the pattern is too even and consistent in depth and width
and parallels the banner edge.
i'll try to get a better shot of it.
HERE ARE SOME BETTER SHOTS!


LOL, Nah yourself!
That is exactly why IMO your coin was hit with something. Another reason is the different surface color inside the marks. Another reason might be that you are the only person who has one of these "errors."
Now, I have a request. In order to help figure out what you have, I need to know if you are in any coin clubs, and what power of magnification do you use.
I am in the White Beard Coin Treasure Hunting and Jelly Club. Membership ....ONE!
i use these two guys to look at coins
not in any clubs yet. only been doing this for four months or so. just got hooked on finding errors.
I like the small magnifier for photo taking and the big scope for viewing them enlarges. the big scope takes crappy photos.
The first hit on the left looks like metal has been pushed aside.
Tell you what, take one of your undamaged cents and lay a butter knife across the bottom of the shield. GENTLY tap the top edge of the knife. If it is not deep enough, move it down a little and tap it harder. You only want to leave a mark on each of the top stripes - just as your coin. Then examine your "work." If it looks like the coin in the OP, spend both of them so another lucky collector can learn something.
here is a comparison to a typ 19-d shield cent.

i can't see it being post damage from being hit and nothing on the
banner itself is disturbed.
Forgive me dude but I thought the whole Idea was to get people enthused about coin hunting. I know there are thousands of you out there with tons of coin searches behind you and yep there are books and books of coin errors that people know about. But why is it when someone thinks they might have something that hasn't been seen yet and they want to know more about it they get shot down in flames. If its a shit coin then fine but don't add the humiliation lesson to your opinion.
Dude, I've spent almost fifty years teaching beginners with less knowledge and experience about coins than you. Here is the thing. I didn't have the luxury of the internet or any mentors helping me out until I was in my twenties. I was self taught. Once I got set down next to a scope using FLORESCENT light (SO I COULD SEE WHAT I WAS ACTUALLY LOOKING AT) I soon surpassed my mentor which indicates what a GREAT and sadly unsung teacher he was!
All a person needs to do as I did is two eyes a little intelligence, lots of coins and a hand lens. I was beginning to think that you have come a long way in just four months. That's why I am practically the ONLY ONE here who has stuck with you and your discussion.
Now dude, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A ------- COIN. We can learn something from all of them! If you wish to continue, lets talk about your coin AND NOT ME!
Did you do the experiment I suggested yet?
Sometimes, the marks on a coin are places where the hits on the original planchet were not struck out. These will look different from hits after the coin was struck. The top image may show some of these; but they still look like PMD. The bottom image (your original OP coin) looks hit after it was struck! Leftover planchet marks have smooth boarders.
ok, thanks. i'll keep it for good reference and keep searching
We are NOT done with it! Neither of us has learned EXACTLY what the marks are from. Please do the experiment. Also, do the marks have soft rounded edges that blend into the surrounding surface or do they appear sharp? You have the coin and the scope.
i increased the magnification and I can see that the same mark extends across the very top of the initials on both sides and part of the coiled banner. the edges are soft and I can even see some slight score marks in line with the dent so it has to be something that laid across the coin and made the mark after it was struck. nothing could have done that in the stamping process.
Great! Your persistence paid off.