SHORT TAIL 2 IN DATE ????

wavysteps2003 · Expert Member

I came across this oddity while searching some circulated rolls. As you can see by the pictures, the 2 in the date has a shortened tail. I dont believe that this is a "garage" job, for the die scratches that run through the date are also present where the rest of the 2's tail is supposed to be.

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Does anyone have any idea what has happened?

WAVYSTEPS2003

pennyhound · Veteran Member

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Bob P · Site Admin

Since your pics aren't available BJ, what is the date you are referring to? I can take a look at coins here to see if I can find whatever it is. If I know the date, I may be able to track it down.

wavysteps2003 · Expert Member

Another mystery. The pictures that I put on with the post are showing just fine on my PC when I bring up the forum. I usede photobucket and it seemed to work just fine.

Well any way, the date that I refered to was a 1962-D. I will send you the pictures through Kodak E-mail Bob, this way you can see what is happened.

Other than that it is back to the drawing board to see what I can do to find the solution to this problem of no pictures.

You all have a good one

WAVYSTEPS2003

coop · Expert Member

Looks like a bag mark on the upper horizontal tail of the 2. Was this from a roll or from circulation? The reason I ask is that it could be a bag mark pushing the lower tail of the 2 West. If you found other examples from a roll, then it is die related. But if you got it in circulation it would take another example to see it if was a die error/damage?

wavysteps2003 · Expert Member

Hi again Coop - It came from a circulated roll. From all that I can tell, this was not made by a contact mark for the area where the rest of the 2 should be is flat like the surrounding field and does show some of the northwest to southeast die scratching in that area. The end of the tail is sharp and has the same degree of sharpness as the rest of the numbers.

Just thought that it was an interesting error and wanted to see if any one else had any ideas of what happened.

Regards,
BJ

coop · Expert Member

I would mark the coin and save it for now. Maybe Bob or Chuck has seen one of those before. See what they have to say. I've never seen it before, but I wasn't really looking for that. Will do so in the future so if there are more out there we can catch them as they so by. Bob had see a 1949 coin with a different 4 than most, so maybe he might have noticed this before.

coppercoins · Site Admin

That coin shows damage, likely from a counting and rolling machine. The reason why the area is flat around where the number should be is because the metal was scraped completely off the coin. Nothing more to it than that.