197???? Lincoln Cent

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• MWallace Posts: 4,347 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 1, 2016 5:43AM

  Post Mint Damage

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• FredWeinberg Posts: 5,929 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 1, 2016 5:45AM

  Yes, PMD -
  
  
  
  otherwise known as a 'sliced digit' - very very common occurrence
  
  
  
  The 0 was sliced from a counting or rolling machine.

  Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.

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• TommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 1, 2016 5:48AM

  Originally posted by: MWallace
  
  Post Mint Damage

  
  
  
  
  I agree.
  
  
  
  There might be an indication of what happened from the scratch that appears to come from the upper right, and head directly toward the date. Whatever machinery made the scratch appears to have bumped and moved the "0" of the date.
  
  
  
  Added: Well, if I had known Fred Weinberg was going to comment, I wouldn't have bothered.

  Easily distracted Type Collector

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• ModCrewman Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 1, 2016 5:51AM

  
  
  
  
  For anyone too lazy to look at the link.

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• chumley Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭

  September 1, 2016 9:17AM

  I graduated from high school in 1970...it was a hard year

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• topstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 1, 2016 10:19AM

  Originally posted by: chumley
  
  I graduated from high school in 1970...it was a hard year

  
  
  
  
  That's why it's prounounced, "nineteen seven dee."
  
  
  
  Oh be quiet. It's reasonable.

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• mustangmanbob Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 1, 2016 10:37AM

  1970, decent weather that year, but there was a NASTY draft.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 1, 2016 10:15PM

  Interesting find.... PMD, but I would keep it in a flip for educational purposes. Cheers, RickO

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• silverpop Posts: 6,746 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 1, 2016 11:22PM

  PMD

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• newcollect Posts: 205 ✭✭✭

  September 2, 2016 12:39AM

  Thanks everyone !!

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• IrishMikey Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭

  September 2, 2016 5:00AM

  Originally posted by: topstuf
  

  Originally posted by: chumley
  I graduated from high school in 1970...it was a hard year

  
  
  That's why it's prounounced, "nineteen seven dee."
  
  Oh be quiet. It's reasonable.

  
  
  
  

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• johnny9434 Posts: 29,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2, 2016 5:02AM

  post mint damage.

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• IrishMikey Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭

  September 2, 2016 5:04AM

  That kind of damage occurs when the fingers that crimped the paper on a penny roll hit the coin. Not the type of wrappers that you fold over, but the kind that mechanically rolled the end of the wrapper inwards, allowing part of the end coin to be seen.
  
  When this affects the last digit in the date, it is much easier to spot, since it looks so different.

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