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PMD OR SOMETHING ELSE? LINCOLN CENT

Is this post mint damage? Note no marks on rims (like vise, etc)...thanks for taking a look! RJ

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Verno said:
    Is this post mint damage?

    You are correct. PMD.

  • Aspie_RoccoAspie_Rocco Posts: 3,849 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 25, 2018 9:15AM

    @Hemispherical said:

    @Verno said:
    Is this post mint damages

    You are correct. PMD.

    How would this occur on one side only? Buffing?

    Myself knowing little of errors, I would suspect a capped die or extremely grease filled die...

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,699 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You can tell by the IGWT and bust that the coin was struck up originally.

    Or so it seems to me... ;)

  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Aspie_Rocco said:

    @Hemispherical said:

    @Verno said:
    Is this post mint damages

    You are correct. PMD.

    How would this occur on one side only? Buffing?

    Myself knowing little of errors, I would suspect a capped die or extremely grease filled die...

    The obverse rim looks sanded. Would not the rim still be present with capped or grease filled die?

    Also the reverse looks like laquer or something.

    I am thinking someone was making some type of cent collage of something and this cent escaped. LOL ;)

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,699 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Hemispherical said:

    Also the reverse looks like laquer or something.

    Good catch. Might have been epoxied to a floor and the obverse shows wear from foot traffic?

  • Aspie_RoccoAspie_Rocco Posts: 3,849 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBK said:

    @Hemispherical said:

    Also the reverse looks like laquer or something.

    Good catch. Might have been epoxied to a floor and the obverse shows wear from foot traffic?

    Clever! Like some found glued to floor in coin shops or as a prank. Seems logical according to the high point wear and low point crisp outlines. I was thinking sand blasted before but the low points would not have the same definition of design outlines.

  • VernoVerno Posts: 327 ✭✭✭

    Hi Guys, I was thinking PMD, however reverse does not have any kind of glue residue, though it does show that way in picture.

  • PTVETTERPTVETTER Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There is something going on
    Not sure but be related to a planchet problem
    Or die problem

    Pat Vetter,Mercury Dime registry set,1938 Proof set registry,Pat & BJ Coins:724-325-7211


  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,529 ✭✭✭✭✭

    _ reverse does not have any kind of glue residue,_

    Could have been goo-goned. Does it smell like an orange? If so, think goo-goned.

    If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.---Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States of America, 1801-1809. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.

  • BigABigA Posts: 2,715 ✭✭✭✭

    I like the floor idea....

    I remember reading about a dude who covered a floor in his house totally with cents....maybe he was strapped for cash

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Definitely PMD.... The 'glued to floor' idea is appealing as an answer... certainly considerable wear has taken place while the reverse was protected. Cheers, RickO

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,835 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There is too much wear to ever be sure. PMD is the most probable reason.

    All glory is fleeting.

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