There were 205 million of the first loonies minted. I see nothing except 5 Reverses.

I think someone tried to drill hole(s) to hang it from a chain and they couldn't get through to the other side. PMD

It looks to me like parking meter or coin counter damage.

If you can pick up a copy of Rob Turner's "Dies and Diadems", published a few years ago, you will find some extensive pages on the 1890 strikes. I can see photos of all the coins covered in this thread. Very early on the "I" in Dei was damaged, so dies were repunched (hand-punched) so there are a pr...

Same. I see minute wear as described from shoulder ornament to mustache. Not enough of a larger pic to see about eyebrows and crown.

Can't access the file. Who's going to wait for an approval before you can see anything. Just send a photo.

Yes, that's one of the ones that I mentioned above. Nice coin.

Yes, we put a TP 1886 in the 2011 CHarlton P 317, but it's a tad different than you two's. I think that they handpunched the 6 for the 1886's. With Obv 1a, there are/were 3 different TP's on the 6. One showed lower left, one like yours with nice offset inside the loop as well as upper right aabove t...

your name/handle should be "4bits" not "2bits" with those coins.

.935 steel, .0475 copper, .020 nickel. Another of the mint's sandwich jobs with steel core, thin nickel, copper .045 plate, then another nickel plate. They are common with gas bubbles and some minor peeling, but still a pretty coin.

If this was a plated coin, and not 100% nickel, the answer would be easy .... it would be that the plating was being cracked off. From What I can see, it's the strangest die crack I've ever seen.

I think that it was a worker at the mint. By using a vise or hammer/with leather, the impressed impression would have been on top of the normal design and it's not. The real reverse designs show on top of the impressed sections.

I think that it was one of the workers at the mint for it to look like it does.

That's from people believing what's written on a holder rather than their own eyes ... and also believing what CaC allows in the "variety" section of their site. They are just "raw" submissions by members that mean nothing and are given any name that the submitter wants to attach to them. Other than...

No, no use to get it graded, except spending money, as they are pretty common coins. The mint just didn't get it's act together when they colored or highlighted the sails. They made golden spaces between the lines that held the sails up. They should have been open air to see past the ropes/lines but...