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1993 3 Blobs On Statue

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 Posted 08/06/2009  7:36 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add closelook to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
The statue has 3 blobs on it, they are solid not bubbles in the copper plating and they look to big to be a DD. any idear what they could be.

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 Posted 08/06/2009  7:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rockdude to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
They look like bubbles, common on zinc coins.
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Check for plating tears. If air gets under the plating the zinc starts to raise the plating. In time the zinc will dissolve leaving a flattened area under it. I agree the size makes it hard to believe it is a doubled die. Although some doubled dies are not just vertical bars. Some are class 9 doubled dies with the snap into the correct position leaving a deeper area of the die that isn't removed when the complete hubbing is completed.
Here are three that were listed by John Wexler that I sent to him. The center one is the most interesting.
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You can see the tilted comlumns that snapped into the correct position.
Here is the link of his new listings and mine is there:
http://doubleddie.com/12201.html
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In order for this to be a doubled die, it would have to be doubling of something else on the design. I see nothing that has this depth or shape on the design. So what would it be doubling OF?

I think gas bubbles too.
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 Posted 08/06/2009  11:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add closelook to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Ive pushed on all 3 of them with toothpicks until the toothpicks broke and could not get any of them to deform at all. All I know is that they are solid not gas bubbles.
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