Did teletrade do a bad job doctoring this photo (what else could it be)

sonofagunk

would love to know the story behind what they were doing here

MadMonk

Looks like a failed attempt at creating the close-up view of the penny.

wayneherndon

LOL, that's a good one!

WH

MrEureka

The lesson to be learned is that you shouldn't bid on a Teletrade coin just because you think you have identified an unattributed rotated die.

airplanenut

Actually, it looks bent as if a semi-spherical label were placed where that weird circle is.

mgoodm3

Looks like some sort of error. The numbers on the serial# match.

MrEureka

OK, since it apparently isn't obvious, let me explain. Some coins are rotated in their slabs. Teletrade apparently has a process that doctors images to adjust the rotation of the coin. Somehow, the image featured in this slab received a double treatment: once on the coin's obverse, and once again on the label. The second "treatment" should have been applied to the reverse, not the label. Now that we know that they are doing this, it would be foolish of us to think that apparently unattributed rotated dies in TT sales really ARE rotated. More likely, it's just that the second "treatment" (of one side of the coin) was never applied. Get it?