Double rainbow??

[gGladden]

Is this ddo?

[MintErrors]

In my opinion, the photos have more background than coin.
There are ways to crop or cut out excessive background so photo sizes are smaller but photos of the coin are larger. Once I am back in the office I will post a way to take photos with a cell phone.

Photos of the area in question are best if thecarea in question are taken centered and with normal lighting. Not too much light as glare will affect the ability to assess the coin.

The cent looks like it suffers from either

split plating damage - A condition where the minting press hammered the coin a little too hard and damaged the thin copper plating. Under the plating is a zinc core.

Other possibility is working die deterioration, or simply, wear of the die. The steel working dies can strike close to 1 million cents before being retired, and the once sharp and pristine working dies become a bit loose and worn. They can wiggle or move slightly since the wear is there.

[gGladden]

I need to look into getting an sd card for the microscope. Cell phone pics are sketchy at times. The coin does have some mainly bluish toning that is more evident depending on how the coin is tilted.

I’ve never sent a coin for grading. Do you think this one would be a good candidate for pcgs?

[MintErrors]

Newer cell phones can have up to a 100 megapixel camera and take amazing photos. The trick is NOT to hold it and take photos thats a sure way to get blurry and unusable photos.

As for cell phone photo taking, I can suggest that photos be taken as follows:

IF you are using a phone:

Find a box, about 6x6 or 8x8.
Place the box on the table.
Place the coin on the table, close to the base of the box.
Place the phone on top of the box and turn on the camera app.
Carefully slide the phone toward the edge so the camera can see the coin.
Adjust the coin closer if need be.
You can zoom in, but do not make the photo blurry at all.
Make sure there is no glare on the coin, use a lamp vice flash from the phone.
With the phone on the top of the box, you can stabilize the phone with one hand.
Gently tap the shutter to take a photo.

If you have a photo editing app on the phone, if need be, crop most of the background out of the photo.
You should be able to draw a box around the coin.
From there use the cropping tool to remove any unnecessary background.
The cropping tool can look like a bent square.

Photos are best saved as JPG.
The photos on this website have to be less than 2mb each.
You should be able to upload 8 photos per post.
If more photos are needed, you can reply to your post and add more photos.

In the text area where you add a post, just to the top left , is a camera icon.
That will toggle on/off the upload buttons.
To upload photos, click on the UPLOAD ATTACHMENTS.

After you uploaded the photos, the list appears below the UPLOAD ATTACHMENTS button.
Click the area on your post where you'd like a photo to show, like below some text.
Then just below the UPLOAD ATTACHMENTS button choose a photo to place where you clicked.
Choose either LARGE or MEDIUM and the photo should appear in your post.
If you don't add it to the post, they should appear at the bottom of your post as attachments.

[MintErrors]

In my opinion, I dont sway people either way to send coins in to grading at third party grading service (TPG's). Its up to the coin owner to accept that risk, cost and wait times. It can be pricey just for grading, close to or over 50 bucks. It may be way more if the owner wants them to look for an error/variety, I would guess closer to 100 bucks.

If this coin is circulated, and if it is not a known type of variety that's already been documented, the return on the investment will probably not be made.

The more I look at this coin, the more it looks like worthless push doubling.

https://www.error-ref.com/push-doubling/

[gGladden]

What is push doubling?

[MintErrors]

Ummmm the link explains it...