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jacrispies: here ya go... when I have the 1944 in hand I'll post specs and new pics. I think it's after 100(?) posts that the eMail of a new member activates  Edited by Oldgrouchyguy
09/05/2022 9:24 pm
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Awesome, thank you for posting pictures. Very neat  Suffering from bust half fever. Want to learn how to attribute early half dollars by die variety? Click Here: http://goccf.com/t/434955Shoot me a PM if you are looking to sell bust halves. |
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I love old struck thrus, and this one is fantastic. Here are two of my favorites - couldn't narrow it down to my absolute fav.   |
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robbudo: those are NICE! And rare
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While we're waiting, can anyone explain what's going on with "WE TRUST"?  Edited by Oldgrouchyguy
09/07/2022 7:47 pm
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I'm sure someone can say it in more precise terms, but in my understanding, in a broadstruck coin like this, which is struck out of the collar, the planchet spreads out a bit when it is struck, making the coin both larger diameter, and causing a stretching out of the words as you see here.
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My last (good) struck-thru. 1908-S, struck thru metal fragment. Copper? Gold? Who knows.   |
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Almost forgot this one.  |
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robuddo: your '08s is struck through Gold! Here's a 1927-S Quarter (quite a bit actually not captured in the scan); have had: '72CC Quarter with a big gold button in the reverse field, 1808 O-105 CBH with gold streaks all over the obverse, a few others. Of the '44 broadstruck: look at the R of TRUST-there's an O there and southeast of that looks like part of a U, and some other overstruck letters...  Edited by Oldgrouchyguy
09/07/2022 9:47 pm
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Spence: a smidge over 20mm and there's a lot more original mint red than shows in the scans, and it's at least triple-struck; the bottom half of the reverse almost looks like a double-die... Removed it from the holder: the reverse rim is broken the length of the strike-through (rim Cud), and whatever it was, was much harder than the bronze of the cent, as it polished where it hit., and left an extended lip of metal at the edge, which is thinned. The cent probably couldn't normally eject from the striking chamber, thus the multi-strikes both sides Edited by Oldgrouchyguy
09/09/2022 01:00 am
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