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PapiNEPapiNE Posts: 281 ✭✭✭
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1978 Eisenhower

USAF veteran 1984-2005

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    ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,498 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My first dumb guess would be a spring loaded nail set or punch.

    No matter what caused it it's post mint damage

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    OldhoopsterOldhoopster Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Regardless of the cause, it's PMD. Something like that would not occur during the minting or die making process

    Member of the ANA since 1982
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    WAYNEASWAYNEAS Posts: 6,355 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Man-made "chop mark" added after the coin was in general circulation.
    Wayne

    Kennedys are my quest...

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    Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,294 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is that Celsius or Centigrade?

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

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    PapiNEPapiNE Posts: 281 ✭✭✭

    @Steven59 said:
    Is that Celsius or Centigrade?

    Ha. Might be. I knew it was PMD but seems to have been placed there with a purpose. Tracking, alignment (nonmint); just something more than somebody playing with a punch.

    USAF veteran 1984-2005

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    JWPJWP Posts: 17,752 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PMD most definitely. Could it be caused by a disassembled ball point pen and a hammer. Someone just having sum fun with hand tools also.

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