Broken die or lamination on Mr.Franklin's jaw?

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• Shamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭

  February 23, 2008 12:22AM

  Broken die.
  
  
  

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• errormaven Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭

  February 23, 2008 3:39AM

  It looks like a die dent. Another possibility is a "sunken die" error (die subsidence). Sometimes, due to soft spots in the die steel, the die face sinks in, leaving a corresponding raised area on the coin. One well-known example is the 1924-S "goiter" cent. A third possibility is post-strike damage. A blade could have been driven into the coin at a low angle, raising up a flap, which was then pushed down again as the coin circulated.
  
  Any conclusion I reach is tentative. This coin would have to be examined under a microscope.

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• Mercury10c Posts: 2,958

  February 23, 2008 5:20AM

  That looks incuse, therefore a broken die is out of the question. Looks like PMD to me.

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• DHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭

  February 23, 2008 9:26AM

  Thanks all. If the images appear to make the jaw look incuse, it's just the images. Under a 10x loupe there appears to be no laceration or flap. I thought what I might be seeing was a collapsed gas pocket, but I suspect a broken die is the culprit.

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