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1980 Lincoln Cent a mint error or PMD "hammer" coin?

This is where I am confused. The "IBE" under LIBERTY are not backwards. Shouldn't those 3 letters be backwards if a cent was overlayed onto it and were hammered/viced? Also, the 3 extra letters ("IBE") are not incuse, they are raised devices.
Maybe a Prior die break and a strike-through with fragment? The letters are correctly orientated in that "fragment" section. Who knows.


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  • lcutlerlcutler Posts: 632 ✭✭✭✭

    The bend in the coin is the telling factor, it couldn't have been bent out of shape if this happened during striking.

  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 9,902 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2, 2023 1:39PM

    [The "IBE" under LIBERTY are not backwards]

    Turn the coin 180° - then it will read EBI.

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

  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,596 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PMD Dynamite.

    Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,984 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "If I Had A Hammer" :)

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  • Morgan WhiteMorgan White Posts: 8,007 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2, 2023 8:17PM

    PMD

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 8,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BLUEJAYWAY said:
    "If I Had A Hammer" :)

    You would hammer in the morning?

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,984 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OAKSTAR said:

    @BLUEJAYWAY said:
    "If I Had A Hammer" :)

    You would hammer in the morning?

    I'd hammer in the evening, all of those pennies.

    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 8,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BLUEJAYWAY said:

    @OAKSTAR said:

    @BLUEJAYWAY said:
    "If I Had A Hammer" :)

    You would hammer in the morning?

    I'd hammer in the evening, all of those pennies.

    You'd hammer all over this land?

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,254 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can't touch this.

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 35,804 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 3, 2023 7:52AM

    @Steven59 said:
    [The "IBE" under LIBERTY are not backwards]

    Turn the coin 180° - then it will read EBI.

    The E would then be backwards. [Not that I'm saying this is anything but damage. ]

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