1939 wheat with ghost shadow above 9

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1939 wheat with ghost shadow above 9

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Hard to see top part of extra 9 above the 9. I can't find anything online about what would cause this issue.
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Looks like just a spot of corrosion/staining.
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Re: 1939 wheat with ghost shadow above 9

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Save Yourself time, effort, and disappointment...don’t learn the coin hobby backwards.
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Most odd looking things on coins are just post mint damage. So looking for random anomalies on coins and hoping they match up to something collectable will take you a lot more time, wasted effort, and disappointment repeatedly finding out you have nothing but post mint damage or useless machine doubling, die deterioration, etc.

Spend some initial time at places like error-ref.com, doubleddie.com, varietyvista.com, conecaonline.org, coppercoins.com etc. to find what actual and collectable coin errors look like.

A good way to start is, for instance, separate a bunch of pennies by date. Go to varietyvista.com and, date by date, use the reference there to see what errors are known for that specific coin/mint mark. Look for those specific errors/varieties using the pictures provided. After doing this for awhile you will KNOW what an actual error looks like and not have to waste time on face value and damaged coins. :)
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Re: 1939 wheat with ghost shadow above 9

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This isn’t a 9 but another marks that looks like it, images are too out of focus to know exactly what happened but you have a well circulated coin that’s been through a lot.
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