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What is going on with this Lincoln Cent?
DCW
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So, I found this 1990 Cent roll searching the other night:
It has a strange anomaly next to LIBERTY, looking very much like a tilted letter "I." It is not a plating blister. It is not a dropped letter, as it is raised. It's basically looks like the other letters:
Anyone venture a guess on what caused this? Die chip?
Really neat coin that has my imagination going.
I hate to throw out the bat signal on something that is probably easily explained, but what the hell. 😆
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Well it is not a strike through. It is interesting that it is in conjunction with the weird strike as well.
Doubled I in Liberty with a very wide spread
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My first guess would be die chip.
This is pure speculation, but I am thinking that the dies struck something hard that both dented the obverse and knocked it slightly out of alignment. Any evidence of matching damage on the reverse?
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Could also be a plating bubble
i was thinking die gouge
Maybe so, perfectly placed next to LIBERTY. If this were a Morgan Dollar it would be a top VAM 😆
@messydesk What say you?
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First think I'd do is poke it with a stick. And, yeah, if it were in the die on a Morgan dollar it would be worth a premium.
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