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1980 Lincoln Cent a mint error or PMD "hammer" coin?
typeviic
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This is where I am confused. The "IBE" under LIBERTY are not backwards. Shouldn't those 3 letters be backwards if a cent was overlayed onto it and were hammered/viced? Also, the 3 extra letters ("IBE") are not incuse, they are raised devices.
Maybe a Prior die break and a strike-through with fragment? The letters are correctly orientated in that "fragment" section. Who knows.
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The bend in the coin is the telling factor, it couldn't have been bent out of shape if this happened during striking.
[The "IBE" under LIBERTY are not backwards]
Turn the coin 180° - then it will read EBI.
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You would hammer in the morning?
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I'd hammer in the evening, all of those pennies.
You'd hammer all over this land?
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Can't touch this.
The E would then be backwards. [Not that I'm saying this is anything but damage. ]
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