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Dang it!!! If I was still employed in L.E., I would have access to an A.F.I.S., or better yet just known as an AFIS analyzer (analyzer is an add on, and optional). You’ll have to look it up if you’re not familiar with what I’m talking. We could FOR SURE tell who owns these prints (albeit illegally though….. dang 😔). I would explain but I’m about to jump on a boat and do some crappie night fishing!!!! I’m back in @VKurtB’s home of Abalama at good ok’ Lake Martin where rednecks freely roam GALORE!!! I love this place! I wonder how a born and raised northerner (no disrespect at all) pronounces “crappie”. The fish I am talking about……🤔 Hmmmm….. I believe I already know the answer…:)

That's a good link and a lot of info there Alex on all the posts from that forum's members. Pretty long post but I skimmed over it and got the gist that there has yet to be found a 'cure' for milk spots. Now that I have a few slabbed solid silver Dollar Coins, I too am wondering if or when they may develop these spots, hopefully never! I keep mine in a safe with a tub of a product called "Damp Rid". The stuff works great and saps every bit of moisture out of the air that you could imagine. Hopefully this will keep my coins from developing any spots over time. Seems like by now, with the technology we have at our fingertips....., that someone would have concocted a solution to this dreaded issue. Thanks for sharing that link.

I'll agree with @Greenstang on that too, it very well could be a plating bubble. Die cracks usually exhibit more crookedness.

Does his give a new meaning to "burnt-ished" coins?

Looking like the D mint mark on the SBA took a hit and pushed some metal out of place, nothing special. The Lincoln looks to have a die crack across the portrait. If that line on Linc's face is raised then it is a die crack. If it's not raised then it's a scratch. Hard to tell from your pic.

Every Alabama country boy born and raised there I've ever met has had a little redneck blood in them, not a bad thing at all! It's what keeps us alive during hard times. @VKurtBwill surely become one by osmosis (even if just a tiny bit...kind of like a die chip on a PR70 that went unnoticed).... he just just hasn't realized it yet. No big deal though. It's a good thing!

Hey!!!! Who said anything about Redneck!!! And I don’t own a Tire Change!!! But I have to admit, I love your comment 😂. Actually… that may be a rather “catchy” phrase for sales. I’ll have to think about it. Ok….I thought about it…. Done! I will reimburse you (an undetermined amount at this time) for any proceeds that may arise from my new venture based on the name of my new company. Don’t hold your breath though Woods…… just sayin.

I'm just wondering if that Eagle preferred Levi Garrett or Beech Nutt???

Thank you! That's a shame about those spots, sorry.....

@Lisae228 I can't tell from your pics but at least one of the steel Cents pictured, best I can tell, looked like it may have been re-plated. I do collect steel Linc's that are in good original condition (not re-plated or re-precessed). If you have time and can take some very good, clear and close-up pictures of any steel cents you may like to sell, please feel free to PM me with the pics. I may or may not be interested depending on the quality. Thanks!

Good point Condor! Being that I am fairly well versed in hydraulics and hydraulic presses... and have access to a CNC machine and some of the best steel blanks known to man.... you just gave me an idea.... Not that I would ever try to pass off something completely hummy to anyone to take their hard earned $$$ but hey..... I'm wondering if someone wouldn't buy a specially designed and minted token from an old North Georgia country boy especially if it had enough eye appeal and was interesting enough?? Hmmmm. I think it would be a fun thing to do and experiment with.

At least it wasn't an 83 year model..... I would have been devastated! (concerning my affection for 83' year coins.... )

There looks to be circ. wear on her knee, ball of the foot and her wrist, maybe? If this actually is wear, and not just rub marks from other coins, how could it even have achieved a score of 60 or higher? I'm basing this off of my plethora of grading knowledge (not!). Just politely wondering.....How long is this question going to go on without telling us, or informing us on, what the 'real grade' is? I stand down

Everyone above is without a doubt correct. Not an error coin. I think the last pic in the opening of your post has deceived you. It is upside down.....

Welcome to the forum Dejone. The guys above are correct about your coin. It has seen its fair share of circulation and has suffered damage, in many forms, as a result. It's amazing how we can see things whether or not they are, or are not there, on a coin. There is a term called paradoia commonly used in numismatics meaning our eyes can see something, and mistakenly interpret that it is something, but in reality it's nothing more than a figment of our imagination. But then again, numerous hits, dings, contacts marks, etc.... can cause disfiguration to a coin which may in fact appear to be an out of place number or letter. However, even if it looks like it, it is nothing more than post mint damage (PMD).

Ok, I am going to try to redeem myself here from my last comment which I humbly redacted. I believe I have a (maybe not though....) better opinion of this HALF. Should this have graded details? I see one area on this coin that raised a red flag to my eye. If I'm correct, which I don't anticipate, whoever did it did one heck of a good job repairing it.....?

I actually have a 55 DDO of my own Woods! I found it in the wild..... online......(albeit it's a framed picture though....)

My comment has been retracted for sheer ignorance on my part!!! I just learned something new about silver coin DENOMINATIONS.... I will leave it at that.....LOL. I will stick to my Lincoln's for now.

I agree with @Greenstang and @Mohawk as stated above. On a side note, I'm loving the other 1943 Steel Cents you have pictured (I'm a diehard Lincoln fan). Just wondering where these steelies may have come from, or if you have examined them closely, as a tremendous amount of steel Cents have been reprocessed (not saying yours are, can't tell from your pics). Reprocessed means re-plated or over-plated with a new shiny zinc coating to make them look new again.

I'm sure it is a much faster and economical way and a 'good process' the way a die is created now.... but DAWM...... I am sure going to miss those class 1 DD's...... very sad to me.

I will go a step further here and say that a lot of folks call these feeder finger lines. I tend to disagree (for a zinc Lincoln in this case). I am in the camp of belief that this is a result of an overly abraided and/or polished die, that left incuse striated lines on the die surface itself (in this case the obverse, or, hammer die), which caused the VERY thin copper plating on these cents produced after 1982 (some zinc Lincs. were introduced in 1982 as this was a transitional year for the Linc. Cent metal composition) to be impregnated into the incuse polished die lines during the strike, on the die face itself, thus creating more stress on the extremely thin copper plating which further enhanced, and caused, the lines and in-turn the plating issues we see on some Lincoln Cents post 1982...... Phew..... That was a run on sentence if I've ever typed one... Sorry to those that don't like these long sentences..... I haven't had my meds yet.

No sir. The lines you see are basically the 8 micron copper plating "bubbling" on the Cent that is showing the debris, or zinc dust particles, underneath the 8 micron thick plating. It is called blistered plating, or plate blistering...... either way. The lines going through your 1986 Zinc cored Lincoln were not formed, made or produced by the minting process. These little (or a lot of...) bumps and lines happen after it the coin was struck and the pitifully thin copper plating was exposed to the environment. Nothing special here, sorry. Hope this helps......

Here's a good article explaining the different types of doubling, both worthless and true hub doubling, if I haven't already sent it to you. This informational tidbit should have its own home, as its own topic, here on the forum for people to reference..... just a thought..... Copy and paste into your browser: file:///Users/ga/Downloads/Other%20Forms%20Of%20Doubling.pdf

I agree with both of you guys and thanks for the comments. I will admit I am a bit confused as well James between the designations of SMS (Special Mint Set) which NGC uses and then PCGS uses SP which I too read is meant for "Specimen" coins, not Special Mint Sets, yet PCGS still lists it as a type of 'specially minted' coin you can choose from from their drop down menu on several denominations. I've read also in the past that SMS coins really do not exist..... but then there's another camp that will argue the exact opposite. Not sure, I never would try to confuse anyone more so than I am already confused myself, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it.....

That's awesome Bill. Thanks for sharing that part of history info with us. I did not know that.