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I was thinking more like "placed in a bezel, then removed". Either way, it's PMD, not a mint error. (View Post)

This is quite evidently post-mint damage. The way that there is a clear "fault line shift " at the A where the crack goes through it, demonstrates that the crack happened after the coin was… (View Post)

That looks like a lump of solder, from someone turning this coin into a button. Thus, the damage would be classified as a "removed mount mark". (View Post)

"Proof" has a technical definiton: it needs specially polished dies, specially polished blanks, and must be struck by the coin press not just once, but twice. If a coin can claim some of th… (View Post)

I think it's an extreme dryer coin. The coin is overall pounded flat (much like you'd see in a coin put through a gemstone polisher) with the coin's rim spooned out then folded back over across the c… (View Post)