1909 Wheat Cent Error? Help Needed

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• commoncents05 Posts: 10,096 ✭✭✭

  April 25, 2007 3:30AM

  the IN is pretty cool looking, but i'm going to guess damage, but i don't really know.
  
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• tincup Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 25, 2007 3:33AM

  I don't see how it can be anything other than physical damage of some sort, that surely happened many years ago. It does not show much sign of scraping, etc., other than the dislocated letters, and the 'disappeared' letters. I just don't see how this could have happened at the Mint.
  
  I agree that it is definitely an interesting coin though.

  ----- kj

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• dan8402 Posts: 2,163

  April 25, 2007 3:41AM

  I could be wrong, but it looks like the kind of damage done by counting machines.

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• ipmman Posts: 565

  April 25, 2007 5:04AM

  Damage, but pretty cool!
  

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• fc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭

  April 25, 2007 5:11AM

  my vote is damage. something really put a lot of pressure on that
  side of the coin and rim.

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,786 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 25, 2007 5:54AM

  Post Mint damage.

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• GoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭

  April 25, 2007 7:36AM

  
  
  << <i>I could be wrong, but it looks like the kind of damage done by counting machines. >>
  
  

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• coppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭

  April 25, 2007 8:34AM

  Definitely post-mint damage, probably by a counting machine.

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