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What is going on with this 1984-D Lincoln?

Found this in circulation recently. What is going on between GOD and WE? Die crack? It is very straight and clean (not jagged like I'd expect for a die crack).

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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    .......all i see are 4 red X's
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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,996 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>.......all i see are 4 red X's >>

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,219 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess they must part of the X-Box set. image
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,219 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd say struck though with something that got on the die.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    ........NOW I SEE SOMETHING!! i'd say something got on the die and gave up its life for the coin design.image
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington
  • PipestonePetePipestonePete Posts: 1,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Judging by the shadowing, the imperfection appears to be raised which would preclude it being caused by a die defect unless it is a minor cud. Perhaps it is a gas bubble below the copper layer.
  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    Given the year, I wonder if it could be a gas bubble under the plating.

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  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    Probably a bubble.

    On new ones sometimes you can smash the bubble but on older ones it fills with zinc oxide so it may not flatten.

    Die defects are raised, a dent in a die becomes a raised area on a coin but this looks more bubbly.

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    Ed
  • Thank you for the info everyone.

    I applied some pressure to the area and it flattened out, so was a bubble. I had previously never heard of such a thing.

    As has been said countless times before, there is always something new to learn on these forums.

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