Help me understand this face...error?!? 1994-P Kennedy half dollar
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I don't even know how to describe what I'm seeing...similar to a letter or number drop, could this be a face/ear drop?! Maybe a strike through? The way the shelf like damage and indentations follow Kennedy's portrait's details is...well...
I'm fairly baffled. The reverse seems unharmed.
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I have no idea - Just hitching a ride to follow this thread for the answers. Definitely strange looking though.........
EDIT - darn, answered the wrong one of another double post - I hate when that happens!
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This is different.... I think I will let @FredWeinberg give input on this one... Cheers, RickO
Die bounce - caused by a loose die in the coin press or mistiming between the strike and ejection.
Basically, it is a somewhat dramatic form of "strike doubling" (also known as "machine doubling").
Im in the strike through camp, a piece of wire or other object got into the coining chamber.
There are several other areas where it looks to have had a item on the patched when coined.
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Machine doubling.
machine doubling (die bounce), finger/palm prints and metal flow lines.
that is really the first machine doubling that looks pretty neat, the ear. almost thought it was a legit monster ddo for a sec.
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Jim
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What I find interesting is the appearance of a "D" in the eye but the coin is a Phily strike.
Is my mind just wanting to see a D?
Please let us know what the outcome is.
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
Yes, It sure looks like a D but probably nothing more than pareidolia somehow. Plus it's not incuse as a dropped letter would be.
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As mentioned by posts above, it's an extreme case
of mechanical/ejection doubling, imo.
I've seen this effect on Kennedy's before - maybe a 2001, or
like this one posted, in the 1990's.
An above average example of this type.
for PCGS. A 49+-Year PNG Member...A full numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022
Thank you sir! I was genuinely baffled, I've never seen anything like it. And kudos to those who got it right
...Now...to find those hardcore extreme machine doubling collectors...!
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