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rockdude Pillar of the Community United States 1807 Posts	Posted 06/19/2009 3:47 pm Is this caused by a filled die, letters are missing some parts. Report this Post to the Staff

ratman4762 Pillar of the Community United States 2523 Posts	Posted 06/19/2009 3:53 pm I'd be willing to guess it's a " Greaser" Report this Post to the Staff
rockdude Pillar of the Community United States 1807 Posts	Posted 06/19/2009 4:04 pm Did you happen to notice the clash marks in the building? Report this Post to the Staff
hasfam Valued Member United States 93 Posts	Posted 06/19/2009 4:18 pm "Did you happen to notice the clash marks in the building?" I did after you said something. lol. Good eye. "Is this caused by a filled die, letters are missing some parts." Yep. Like mentioned before. Filled with grease. Rock Report this Post to the Staff
coppercoins Pillar of the Community United States 7629 Posts	Posted 06/19/2009 6:26 pm No...not a filled die. The clash marks actually give it away. When you have a clash to remove, you polish the die. If you polish it too much, you remove details from the die. Remembering that the die is the exact opposite of the coins it strikes, when you remove the highest points of the die it removes the lowest points of the coin. In other words, die polishing removes details on the resulting coins from the bottom up. A Grease Filled Die fills in details from the top down. We're basically talking about a case here where something is removed that should be there. Filling a die with grease adds something that should not be there. The effect is very different. Report this Post to the Staff
mikediamond Pillar of the Community United States 2740 Posts	Posted 06/20/2009 2:58 pm Chuck is correct. The die was intentionally abraded. The thinning-out of the letters is a key diagnositc of such errors. Error coin writer and researcher. Report this Post to the Staff
hasfam Valued Member United States 93 Posts	Posted 06/20/2009 9:55 pm Interesting. Thanks for clearing it up. Rock Report this Post to the Staff
rockdude Pillar of the Community United States 1807 Posts	Posted 06/21/2009 12:20 am Yeah, thanks. Report this Post to the Staff
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