2000 P Sacagawea. mint error

[pennies4pennies]

filedata/fetch?id=124158&d=1770685874&type=thumb I really don't know what happen to this 2000P Sacagawea. I thought strike through but there's nothing on the rev that could cause it. I looked at many of these 2000 P and never saw it again. Maybe someone could help me. I do believe it's a mint error.

[MintErrors]

In my opinion, its on the field as well as the design/devices.
It appears to be pretty straight and it is raised.
The working die itself may have been damaged resulting in a die gouge.
I don't believe its finger feeder damage.
I don't believe it to be die scratches / abraded die.

Could it have been on the planchet before the strike? Maybe.

Strike throughs are typically incused or sunk into a coin - this appears to be raised.
Most times, if the issue is raised on the coin, it was sunk or incused into the working die.

What is sunk into the die, when the coin is squeezed by the working die, becomes raised on the coin.


The magnification seems to be really high. The area that affected seems small. It may affect other collectors interest.
If there were more drama in the coin, then people might do a double take.