Can some help me identify this error? It's a 1963 D penny that appears to be just a bit smaller than the usual cent. The L in Liberty is missing. Lincoln's head, face & body are smooth & show not many features (as if the obverse was sanded, but looks soft to the eye & feels soft to the touch, as if it were flattened by weight). The tips of In God We Trust are cut off. The Lincoln Memorial, on the reverse, appears to have some sort of smoothly flattened smudge over it. Can someone help me identify this error, or figure out what might of caused this? Thank you.
That makes sense. It's around the same size as a dime. Do you know if they were also sanded down, or do you think it's faded over the years?
Not everthing that looks strange or different is automatically an error. But I'm glad you were given the answer and that you understand that there could also be PMD - Post Mint Damage and Alterations.
Amazing what some people will do for 9 cents. It had to have taken a good 30 minutes to sculpt that cent into the proportion of a dime. 18 cents an hour is pretty lame.......even for 1963, when you could purchase a coke for a nickel, a Big Mac, or as they say in Paris "Le Big Mac", for 28 cents and a gallon of gas for 30 cents.....where gas prices may be headed here in 2020.
One of the big reasons people actually would spend the time to file down a penny. Make a call for only a penny. What a deal. Also probably why they started manufacturing coin receivers to analyze the weight of coins also and not just the size.
