1828 large cent-crack on edge
goldfixer21
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When i first saw this damage on the edge, I figured it was either a file mark, or a saw blade mark. After looking under my scope, it appears to me to be from stress. It's difficult to photograph, but the notched area is not a flat plane. There is an area that is concave that could not be from either a file or saw. Could this be a crack that originated when it was struck?
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Looks like it was notched with a chisel to me.
Post mint damage on a heavily circulated coin. Someone was probably fooling with it early in its circulation life.
Although difficult to assess from those pictures, it likely is PMD...the raised, but worn area around it, would indicate some metal displacement at the time of the original damage. Cheers, RickO
Looks to me like the one Jim Bowie threw his knife at and only nicked it before he became a Mormon and engraved his last gold coin only an hour before his death.
Yep...PMD early on, then worn down over the life of the coin.
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What they said.
The mounded metal into the field is one sign. Metal was pushed in by the cut.
Agree with PMD.
It could be that someone started turning this into a tool, gear, or fixture, as large cents were occasionally used for, and botched the first cut...or perhaps they only needed one notch for the intended purpose.