Large Cent - Mint Error or Damage?

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• pursuitofliberty Posts: 7,434 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 5, 2010 3:16PM

  wow ... I want to say post mint because it appears parts ot the design and legend were raised at one time
  and now appear to be smashed flat
  
  
  ... but I don't know ...
  
  
  hope the experts chime in
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  “We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
  
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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 5, 2010 9:01PM

  I would say post mint damage, based on the misshaped portion. No idea how it occurred. Cheers, RickO

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• Rampage Posts: 9,548 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 5, 2010 9:46PM

  Looks like PMD Jack.

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• PerryHall Posts: 47,059 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 5, 2010 10:07PM

  
  
  << <i>I would say post mint damage, based on the misshaped portion. No idea how it occurred. Cheers, RickO >>
  
  
  
  Agree. Post mintage damage. Looks like the one side was smashed possibily with a hammer

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,067 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 5, 2010 10:12PM

  PMD.

  Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Author "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," due out late 2025.

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• notwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭

  March 5, 2010 10:19PM

  I'm having trouble figuring out how this PMD was caused but I'm pretty sure it is PMD. The lower star on the left is the best clue. It had it's top taken off in the damage but there is well struck metal between it and the major damaged area. --Jerry

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• RTS Posts: 1,408 ✭

  March 5, 2010 10:55PM

  Oxcart damage.

  

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• 1798CentCollector Posts: 736

  March 11, 2010 12:15AM

  Most certainly post-mint damage.

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,067 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 11, 2010 12:27AM

  
  
  << <i>Oxcart damage. >>
  
  
  
  I remember that movie with Henry Fonda: "THE OX-CART INCIDENT"
  
  

  Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Author "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," due out late 2025.

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