1c Struck Through A Late Stage Hammer Die Cap

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SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10449 Posts	Posted 12/01/2020 12:11 am Picked this one up several months ago. Later stage, and by weight, this is either 1980 or 1981. A few more whacks and this die cap would lose the ability to create a mirror brockage. Not an easy one to photograph... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff

DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9732 Posts	Posted 12/01/2020 01:15 am Nice one! Looks like a fin on the obverse. What causes this? Is it just the extra pressure of two coins in the chamber or ? "Dipping" is not considered cleaning... -from PCGS website Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10449 Posts	Posted 12/01/2020 09:14 am I suspect so, excess metal squeezed above the collar die. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 12/01/2020 09:48 am Nice example, congrats! Report this Post to the Staff
darryldarryl Pillar of the Community Canada 2418 Posts	Posted 12/01/2020 6:45 pm Very NICE !! Report this Post to the Staff
robmck1967 Pillar of the Community Canada 869 Posts	Posted 12/01/2020 8:40 pm love it! nice pickup. Report this Post to the Staff
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