is this PMD? it looks strange

[Bonnie]

Is this post mint damage? it looks like it might not be?

[occnumis2021]

what leads you to think not be pmd.

i would just confirm one way or the other but i like teachable moments and hearing/reading what someone else's line of thinking may be.

[Bonnie]

because it looks like it's in the penny? Nothing else on the penny has the same damage.. why just in that area?

[occnumis2021]

why not just in that area?

just because you scrape your knee if you fall, doesn't mean you have scratches on your head, back, feet, elbows etc.

if i scrape a coin below the date, does that damage magically appear also on the rev or must i not also scratch it there also first?

[Dutch-Tigger]

No matter how why or who did this as Occ tried to convey, is nothing that happened during the striking of this coin so PMD. canvas8.jpg

[MintErrors]

Look at the overall condition of the coin. Then look at some of the damage.Its relatively shiny which means it probably happened not too long ago. The coin show damage in to the coin, like it may have had been exposed to pressure. Digging into the coin, and possibly moving a bit. It could have been a vise coin, but who knows for sure. Rationalize what the die would have looked like IF this struck a coin. Dies don't just strike a single coin. They can last closer to 1 million strikes. That mea s there would be hundreds of thousands of this out there, some in way better shape. Add that the deepest part of the working die (Lincoln himself) would have to have this issue, may cause the die to shatter.

It's tough to look at post mint damage (pmd) and try to figure out what happened. In the end, whether the true reason is found or not, it's still pmd and worthless.