1995 been struck multiple times both sides

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• ModCrewman Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 8, 2017 6:03AM edited August 8, 2017 6:03AM

  Welcome aboard!

  It looks to me that that is post mint damage, not something that occurred at the US Mint in the striking process. There are a few reasons I feel that way:

  1. No indication of any of the coins devices (design elements) from the 2nd strike are shown on the photo you provided.
  2. There are countless ways that this coin could have been damaged in this manner after leaving the US Mint, and not really any/many that could have happened before leaving the mint. I tend to use "Damage" as my initial opinion, and then try to determine from there how it could have happened during the minting process.

  Whether they admit it or not a large number of us here started by looking at our pocket change and being excited by things like this ourselves. Experience and some analysis usually leads to becoming less excited about these things by acknowledging they are far more likely to have occurred after leaving the mint and the coin is simply damaged.

  You have come to the right place, the board includes some of the world's premier error coin experts and they will likely happen by at some point to offer their opinions.

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• silverpop Posts: 6,763 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 8, 2017 6:10AM

  IMHO Post Mint Damage

  1997-present

  2003- present

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• Welkerm1 Posts: 7 ✭

  August 8, 2017 6:16AM

  I was wondering becauseI can see imprint of a penny in the bend ?

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• messydesk Posts: 20,347 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 8, 2017 6:28AM

  @Welkerm1 said:
  I was wondering becauseI can see imprint of a penny in the bend ?

  I can't really make anything out here, but it was probably clamped between two other cents and squeezed with a vise or C-clamp.

  John
  Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution

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• 1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 8, 2017 6:31AM

  Welcome aboard

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• FredWeinberg Posts: 5,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 8, 2017 7:07AM

  It's damaged

  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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• Treashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 8, 2017 7:09AM

  third thread?

  Frank
  
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• davewesen Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 8, 2017 7:46AM

  vice job

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 8, 2017 9:53AM

  @Welkerm1.... Welcome aboard... as others have noted, it is post mint damage (PMD)... Cheers, RickO

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