Hi. This is my 1964 D penny. Is this just damage? It looks pretty cool though.

jenjen1963

It looks like Lincoln has a nail going through (near) his eye. I took a few pictures at different angles to see if these are gouges from damage or an actual object. Sorry the pics aren't the best, but my camera isn't the best either.

Greenstang

If the lines are incuse, then it would be damage from taking a hit.
Please avoid using screen shots, they make the picture too pixilated
to see the fine detail properly.

NewEnglandRarities

While it does appear to you to be raised, actually it’s just a cut/scratch by the eye. If metal is moved by a cut, it can have an optical illusion of being raised, but in fact it is just the displaced metal.

The reason it’s not an error or anything valuable is because if it was a mint error, it would have to be on ALL of the coins minted from those dies, so there would be literally 10 million of them out there.

NewEnglandRarities

@Greenstang said:
If the lines are incuse, then it would be damage from taking a hit.
Please avoid using screen shots, they make the picture too pixilated
to see the fine detail properly.

This is great advice! Try to post a regular picture showing the entire coin, both front and back. Microscope camera pictures are not very helpful and often show such pixelation that they are not useful. Though in this case, the answer is pretty clear even from the screenshot images.

ifthevamzarockin

Welcome to the forum!

It's a hit on the coin, post mint damage. (PMD)

jenjen1963

Thanks you for the comments and explanations. I appreciate you all!