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1965 P error Lincoln penny
Mgfrd
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I'm new to the forum. I have a 1965P Lincoln penny and I think there's an error on the inside of the rim on the reverse at approximately 10 to 12 o'clock and the splintered inner rim looks like a number 7 that reaches down to and attaches itself to the outside of the first letter S in the word states. I cannot find any error of this kind on any Lincoln penny in this year and mint after hours on the Internet. Looking for some input
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Your images are a bit small & don't enlarge well.
It appears to be post mint damage. (PMD)
How can it be pmd. This coin is MS BU quality. Never been in circulation My images enlarge fine on my end
Cents are mass produced and can be damaged at the mint by sorting or wrapping machines.
Once they leave the mint they can be damaged by companies that roll & distribute the coins. (Lumis/Brinks)
Looks like pmd, damage. You can see where the metal has been displaced.
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What do you mean by no other identical coins for the year. I have 250 of these in original paper bank rolls from Sunnyvale Calif. All MS BU never been in circulation. This is the only one with this deformity. Are you telling me this the only penny in what I have that just so happened to be the only one damaged like this. Are you saying error coins are only one of a certain coin and year and no other coins of say the 1955 Lincoln Wheatie DD are out there. Are you saying only one exists and newly discovered error coins in certain years never turn up every year or so. Look closely. My photos are fine. It looks like a number 7 stamped in the upper left corner
Why would the mint put a 7 on the reverse?
They don't just have extra 7's floating around the die making room that jump onto dies.
For a genius to find it.
There is no way for that to happen when the coin was struck so it is damage.
Anything that happens to a coin after it leaves the ejection chamber is damage
no matter where or how it happened.
Another non-believer!
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It is not a 7. it looks like it could be a planchet flaw, which detracts from the value, I can't really tell the photo is so poor. If you want to find errors look at Lincoln cents from 2009, specifically Lincoln sitting on a log P mints. There are like 40 different DDR's.
Don't think of the minting process as a fine golden glove thing, it is an industrial mass production, take a look at the last minute of this 3 minute video of the Denver mint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FwSibJjJQ4
The real indication will be the offers in your mailbox to purchase the cent.
I’m looking for the “4” in the rim.
It is just a damaged cent. If you are convinced it is a rare error send it in to PCGS for certification.
Sorry to hijack the thread, but after the coins are punched from the raw material, they can't be perfectly flat, can they? What is the process that would flatten them?
Complicated—they work it out one at a time—
Those concrete blocks flatten unwieldy gold dollar alloy puddles. The argon light is kinda like spray starch for your button-down after you press it.
An elegant solution, but the simplest explanation is best.
They flatten the planchets by punching sevens all over them.
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Thanks for responding @jmlanzaf I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear. I DID mean the planchets being struck from the raw material.
Here we go again. Newbee comes here to ask the learned members a question about a supposed mint error. He/she get the answer from the members and its not good enough. My only personal problem with this is that I opened the thread
"Raw material" = strip.
Google "blank planchet" and you'll see what they look like. I'm not sure of your definition of "perfectly flat" but its close enough for me.