penny 192?

Came across this one in my bucket of pennies.

Ive had for at least 30 years, what do you think, damage or error?

You can eee some wear on the inner ring, and the dot, but I can't get my head around how the damage has been done without marring the field.

 

carefully filed and the toning is hiding the evidence?

 

Yeah, but why?

 

Can see the faint outline of a '4'. Why would anyone file it? Maybe looking to stick a '3' on it instead? :lol:

 

Looks more like a 2 in real life.

 

4 - may or may not have been altered

1for1