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by Shylo » Mon Jun 20, 2016 12:05 pm
I am not an error specialist by any means but looking at this coin my spidey senses are tingling and not in a good way.
There's a LOT of things going on with this coin that I can't explain other than PMD.
It looks like the coin has a rim edge on it... but then there's metal extruding from the rim edge. I have a hard time figuring out how that could happen in the process of minting coins.
I'm also confused on how extruding details such as the date and the denticles now appear "mushy"
Everything suggests to me that a great force was applied to this coin after it was struck, but everything I know about the minting process, after a coin is struck it's basically collected in a hopper and rolled. So I'm not sure aside from the strike where this coin would've received such a force upon it.