Peace Dollars

Wait a minute, I am not familiar with Peace and will require a little bit to digest that thought. When speaking of clashing, I think in terms of dies rather than coins, which are you referring to?

Who says the reverse die was the upper die? Like the notion of ghosts, I don't doubt it, but I don't believe it either. I am iffy about this unless it is found in the mint archives, and I don't think that it has been.

Nope, I ain't buyin' that for a minute. I see the line, but a line does not equate to field reduction. If a break is to be removed or lessened, the field must be lapped, and the surrounding devices would lose relief. I don't see it.

Don't bother Rem, the line is irrelevant to anything to do with the break unless it is considered to be a crack.

That is a scratch, similar to others that parallel it. That is not how breaks are touched up. A break has no fix.

I really don't want to argue about this sort of stuff Remmy, as you are well aware, it is much to earrrrrlyyyy in the morning for that yet.

Okay, is this what you were talking about?

Hey we're on fire already... LOL this is a thread that has ZERO interest by Oz. He just aint a peace guy. But he gifted me a VERY COOL Peace dollar once. He's a heckuvaguy.

Yes he is. Terry is one of my all time favorites. I have great admiration and respect for him.

I too am moving around like a zombie, and I think it is because of this thread. I thought it was still fairly early morning, yet my entire morning is gone.

As far as the notion of the planchet automatically filling the die, or the coiner doing so deliberately, I think that I would have used words to add a much higher degree of certainty than merely "very unlikely".

I have to go get some stuff done Remmy, but when I get back, I will try to explain to you just why either of those notions is ridiculous. I will have to go back to page one to look at the Peace dollar again to contemplate just what you are talking about concerning the relief clashing too. I cannot for the life of me imagine physical differences occurring regardless of which die was on top, or which design was used, but I will think about it. The device drop offs are what is transferred in clashing, it cannot be otherwise. Some folks think that the word LIBERTY on a Morgan is incuse on the coin, but is it really, or is this the illusion achieved because the headband surrounding LIBERTY is incuse on the die leaving LIBERTY at field level?