1992 D spider web a day late

[mikediamond]

Ohhh, I was a little slow on the uptake there Mike. I didn't realize that this was uncommon. You'll have to forgive me, I'm new to Lincoln and very new to the attributes of the zinc cents. I'll send mine to you today and you can give it the once over. Thanks, Jon.

Sounds good. It may make the cut for my Collector's Clearinghouse column, especially if I can figure it out.

[stoneman227]

Mike , if you will pm your address I will send the 89 to you !

John

[makecents]

Sounds good. It may make the cut for my Collector's Clearinghouse column, especially if I can figure it out.

Mike, the one I sent out is the 1992 D in the first part of the post. It's not quite as impressive as stoneman's 89. It should be to you Thursday.

[makecents]

That is cool looking... I am a little busy at this time working on some other coins but it should be no problem in a week say around the 10th... You still have my address???

Jim, I went on ahead and sent to Mike, so you won't need to worry about messing with it. Thank you for the offer though, it was greatly appreciated!

[jfines69]

Cool... I am glad that Mike will be taking a look at your coin... He is the pro... I hope it makes the cut for an article... Yours and stonemans are very interesting coins!!!

[makecents]

Cool... I am glad that Mike will be taking a look at your coin... He is the pro... I hope it makes the cut for an article... Yours and stonemans are very interesting coins!!!

I don't think mine is all that but Johns is impressive and hope it makes it in the article. As for your prowess, I would put you up there with the best of them!!

[stoneman227]

I don't think mine is all that but Johns is impressive and hope it makes it in the article. As for your prowess, I would put you up there with the best of them!!

My fingers are crossed for both coins!
Mine hit snail mail this evening.

John

[makecents]

My fingers are crossed for both coins!
Mine hit snail mail this evening.

John

Sweet!! John, mine is small potatoes compared to yours. That will make me happy if yours gets in! That is an impressive coin.

[stoneman227]

Wanted to respond earlier but needed to lay hands on my coin .

Jon , could your coin show stress lines/cracks in the plating ? Here is one of mine that shows some wild ones .

John

Funny how your eye is drawn to one thing and you miss the rest.
The coin is in the mail so I can't double check it and there are no pics of the reverse but look at Abes cheek bone and eye. Looks distorted though the roller lines look to carry through the area undisturbed. Could be damage from the reverse that I didn't notice.
Odd, maybe Mike will notice it as well.

John

[makecents]

Funny how your eye is drawn to one thing and you miss the rest.
The coin is in the mail so I can't double check it and there are no pics of the reverse but look at Abes cheek bone and eye. Looks distorted though the roller lines look to carry through the area undisturbed. Could be damage from the reverse that I didn't notice.
Odd, maybe Mike will notice it as well.

John

John, I think you might be onto something there. Look at the vest kinda in the center and you will see two raised dots laying east to west of each other. Maybe impressions from the back from some sort of tool. Also the scuffs the the east and west of the jacket on the lower rim.

[TPring]

It is an interesting pattern.

Looking at the reverse side, it looks to me that it has been the end coin of a roll [recently] -- Maybe it got tweaked in the process.

[jfines69]

Looking at these again I am thinking they are strike thrus that damaged the dies... On the stonemans there appears to be a design of some sort on the shoulder unless it is my pair of doilies again... Almost looks like wire??? Can't wait to see what Mike determines!!!

[mikediamond]

I have Jon's 1992-D cent. The spidery lines are incuse. Under a microscope they do not look like cracked plating. I'm not sure what they are. It's possible that some lint soaked in a corrosive fluid etched its pattern into the copper plating. That's all I can think of. They really don't look like a struck-through error, especially in the way that the individual lines fade out on the left and the right. The semi-circular lines beneath the Memorial are scrapes -- damage inflicted after the strike. They are presumably unrelated to the meshwork of incuse lines that weave their way through STATES OF.

[makecents]

I have Jon's 1992-D cent. The spidery lines are incuse. Under a microscope they do not look like cracked plating. I'm not sure what they are. It's possible that some lint soaked in a corrosive fluid etched its pattern into the copper plating. That's all I can think of. They really don't look like a struck-through error, especially in the way that the individual lines fade out on the left and the right. The semi-circular lines beneath the Memorial are scrapes -- damage inflicted after the strike. They are presumably unrelated to the meshwork of incuse lines that weave their way through STATES OF.

Thanks for the quick response Mike!! I really thought they were raised. You were right Viv!! So, somewhat of a Halloween mystery.

[VAB2013]

Thanks for the quick response Mike!! I really thought they were raised too. You were right Viv!! So, somewhat of a Halloween mystery.

You know Jon, shortly after you found this coin, I found one with dried glue that had almost an exact square/circular type pattern on it where the glue had cracked in places but it didn't have the lines extending from it like yours. Since you soaked your coin for days, that ruled out glue. How nice of Mike to inspect this coin for you. Funny how coin searching can turn into a forensic science of sorts!