Mint error or damage? Any information help

Cracked obverse die (error) and scratches (damage).

bob

That seems to be a very nice bisecting rim to rim die crack (or maybe a lamination, I can't tell) and unless I'm missing it, I don't see one listed here.

http://cuds-on-coins.com/rim-to-rim-die-cracks-on-u-s-coins-2/

Please show the full coin, face on, both sides, without editing the pictures to crop the edges. Bonus if you can add an edge-on shot near the date area.

I'm still not sure what I'm looking at. Possible catastrophic die failure in progress?

@OAKSTAR said:
That seems to be a very nice bisecting rim to rim die crack (or maybe a lamination, I can't tell) and unless I'm missing it, I don't see one listed here.

http://cuds-on-coins.com/rim-to-rim-die-cracks-on-u-s-coins-2/

Remember we are just spitballing here.
I found something interesting at first glance of your coin .
I've been researching a coin without an exact date and remembered a crack in, some what, of the same spot.
See the crack passing through the upper part of the last no. 5 in your 1955 dated coin, as seen below.
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Now look at this image.
Arrows...... on the researching coin.
That's a 5, with could be another crack passing through the same upper part of a 5, but distorted and out of place.
So far that's all I got, I ran out of spit.
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Here's the full monty.

@IkesT said:

@Fordee4 said:
Ok thank you for the examples of pictures helps a lot! 🙏

They shouldn't, because what he just showed you is actually damaged garbage.

I'm just driving solo, on a double lane highway, following a so called, damaged, garbage truck.
And....... "I can't drive 55".

@Fordee4 said:

@IkesT said:

@Fordee4 said:
Ok thank you for the examples of pictures helps a lot! 🙏

They shouldn't, because what he just showed you is actually damaged garbage.

So what are you trying to say??

You said that the pictures from emeraldATV helped a lot. I'm saying they should not have been helpful to you, because they are just photos of a random damaged coin.

The quality of your own photos is not great, but I agree with an earlier poster that your coin might have a lamination error.

Like I stated in my first post.
Spitballing -
kicking a proper answer around, of a question, for someone who took the time to come here and ask the question.
There are a lot of 55's that are not garbage, just to be clear.
(Research works better than the cliff notes ikest. I'd love to continue this battle of wits but I see that your unarmed)
Play nice, now or the other images found go into a private message.
Out to lunch.